France’s Blockheads are by far the best grindcore band named after a Charlie Brown put-down.
It’s been 8 years since Blockheads’ last full-length, This World Is Dead, released in 2013 on Relapse, and while the world certainly feels a lot closer to impending doom than it did then, not much has changed for Blockheads. Trip To The Void is a relentless, devastating sociopolitical death/grind, almost entirely fast as holy hell; it’s fast-paced and purely vicious, twenty-five songs in just over twenty-eight minutes. Riffs fly by at high speed; drummer Nico pounds his kit like a jackhammer; vocalist Xav screams and bellows. The death-tinged riffage of “Walls” shoves its way into your skull, while the sheer chaotic drive of “The Devourer” leads headlong into the ripping “When You’ll Become A Shadow,” whose mid-period flirtation with groove is the first of a few moments where Blockheads let off the gas. (Fear not, “Damage Control” brings it all back to manic intensity again.) Even as the songs fly by at breakneck speed, guitarist Fred works catchy riffs between them – witness, as an example, the tremolo-driven death metal shards on the crushing “Cages,” which also sports near-deathly harmonic breakdown and near-blackish dissonance. Witness, as another example, the searing, swaggering noise of “Black Heaps Of Cinders,” where riffs hit hard and sink deep into any frenetic groove.
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