Internal Rot – Mental Hygiene
Dipankar Mohanty reviews the debut full-length from Internal Rot titled Mental Hygiene, released via Blastasfuk Grindcore.
Crunchy grind is what comes to mind after listening to this 30 minute monster. I’ll be honest straight up. I’m a fan of selective grind and it so happens I love exactly this kind of grind, so imagine my drooling when I first heard this. Internal Rot embody the purest traits that quality grind contains – violence and freedom.
‘Mental Hygiene’ will grab you by the collar and throw you straight into a pit of wild boars. You will be shredded and eventually torn into pieces in the frenzy that ‘Mental Hygiene’ creates. Musically, it is infused with punk thrash elements and the guitar tone it carries is jagged edged similar to what Insect Warfare, Wormrot, Infanticide and Death Toll 80k employ; and that is saying “it slays”. So fans who have heard these bands before should know what to expect and be ready to lap it up.
Right from the first track Muciferous, the album is a gateway to unbridled anger and consequently, freedom. The 30 odd minutes get over in a blink of an eye. After absolutely four murderous tracks, the band also manages to get some groove in via the aptly named Sex Everywhere! It obviously doesn’t make sense to distinguish between songs in a top grindcore album like this but ‘Internal Rot’ insert some slight shifts in tempo; alternating between blazingly fast and slightly slower mosh ready parts. Albeit for a few seconds, this keeps a tab on the attention span of the listener and gives some breathing room like it is so midway into tracks like Nose in Neck and Hodgkinson St., in order to get ready for the next round of barrage that inevitably follows. The last and the longest track happen to be titled Riddled with Rage and it pretty much sums up the sentiment of the whole album.
There is a certain appeal for grind albums like these, whose expressiveness and production attracts fans from other extreme genres. Blastasfuk adds another fantastic album to its already impressive roster. Get your mosh gear on and buy this already.
RATING: 5/5(A majestic monument, a banner of triumph for the ages, like a berserk barbarian overpowering a mighty horde single-handed with time for wenches and wine on the side.)
Stream the entire album below:
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