Band: Pariso
Release Title: ‘Consanguinity’ (Album)
Release Date: 01/07/2013
Every now and then, you come across a band by accident almost and through my scrolling through the rosters of many a record label, I came across Pariso through the renowned Tangled Talk Records a year or so ago and since then, hooked like a meth-head,I have been awaiting the full-length ‘Consanguinity‘ with baited breath and tensed genitals. The band also chose to put this out for free download. Good on you, lads!
Kicking shit off with ‘The Separation‘, we’re thrust face first into a barrage of heavy, screeching riff-based assaults, nothing less than expected from a band with such a hard reputation as the strongly metal-influenced ‘Maniai‘ comes stomping and spitting in, chugs ahoy!
‘Pigs‘ has a sort of oddball groove attached to it, swaggering and gurning for all to see, there is no rest for the wicked when listening to a record with such chutzpah and fearlessness. There’s punk, metal, good hardcore and rock n’ roll in this melting pot, no bullshit, just straight-up hard-as-nails heavy music.
The jagged strain of ‘Methuselah‘ pays homage to what I would personally to deem as the ‘highlight’ of this record, coming in the form of ‘Tower Of Genus‘. Although I rarely take pleasure in having a ‘favourite’ track from a full-length record especially, ‘Tower Of Genus‘ is simply fucking incredible, with riffs in your face from the off, it’s impossible to stray from the path whatsoever. And no, that was not a reference to the band. The female vocals that appear in the latter section of ‘Tower Of Genus‘ are perfect to create a weird sort of epic sound that is often lost when it comes to the heavier side of hardcore/metal.
Pummeling through tearers ‘Equivocation‘ and ‘Montserrat‘, we are met with the full-blown groover ‘Trollegeren‘, no holds barred as ‘Dead Blockade’ closes the record in ragged, dagger-point precision. Delivery is spot on, production is spot on, all round a top-bollock record. This definitely won’t be the last you’ll hear of this London-based clan of bruisers, that’s for sure!
9/10
Reviewer – Luke E Davis
