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The Drip – A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics

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Mohammad Kabeer reviews the new EP from the The Drip titled A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics, released via Relapse Records.

I daresay its one of the best cover artworks out this year, done by Orion Landau

Hello guys its me again with another review, It’s a little late this time, but the proverb “better late than never” is more than apt in this scenario, for this could be a turning point for the genre as a whole. .. But I guess we will only know that in the next twenty years.

The Drip is a Grindcore band from Richland, Washington. While their previous album wasteland was nothing spectacular, this one right here hits the ball straight out of the park. From a musical point of view it is pretty obvious that these guys are heavily influenced by Nasum, Rotten Sound and maybe even the plethora of clones that ape them . But these guys are definitely in a league of their own. Although the band is as visceral and as intense as any of their counterparts, these guys moves away as much as they can from formulaic songwriting(a plague which has infected this genre quite severely) by doing things still differently and yet still remaining faithful to what they are. The para-diddles which ultimately build up to really fast blast beats in Bygones Only Burn Once, the dissonant mathcore like riffs at the beginning of Black Screen, the very simplistic verse/chorus /verse/bridge songwriting in Lash in Lash out or just the fact that the band decided not to end with a slow heavy riff, which has been done a thousand times by the bands mentioned above and go all hardcore/crust all the way till the end. It is these simple things that makes The Drip not only stand out but beat the two legends mentioned above at their very own game.

This is a fantastic album, one that is distinctive in every way. This is exactly what this genre needs right now.