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Brainbombs
Urge to Kill


4.0
excellent

Review

by ffs USER (61 Reviews)
April 9th, 2015 | 60 replies


Release Date: 1999 | Tracklist


Songwriting is hard. Think about how many different notes there are to play on a guitar or whatever and the endless different orders that you can play them in while keeping in mind important qualities like flow and form and originality and if you're like me you might have to sit down and take a few deep breaths about the overwhelming hopeless impossibility of so many possibilities. Perhaps then it is with this ever present in mind that the brand of irreverent anti-songwriting that cerebral terrorists Brainbombs play becomes so compelling.

What these crude Swedish hell blues merchants do is write a really good riff and keep playing it for the entirety of a song until the listener is beaten into a submissive trance and then the whole thing just crumbles apart of its own accord. Repetitive this music is, without a doubt, but there is enough variation in the alternate guitar and trumpet leads and the pacing of each song that each riff presents itself as a kind of noxious mantra for the listener to blissfully detach themselves from the real world and enter the visceral morbid fantasy of Brainbombs. Even compared to the bands three previous albums, the production on Urge to Kill is particularly abrasive, the guitar tone thin and vitriolic, the vocals even more distant, and the grounding presence of their trademark trumpet licks is diminished.

The best thing about this style though is that the riffs actually help tell the story of each song, depicting one incredibly intense feeling that threads together the psychopathological patchwork of disjointed narrative in the lyrics. Who can deny the feeling of swaggering delusion embodied in the riff of "Stupid and Weak" vindicated by that inspiring refrain of "TOO MANY IDIOTS", or the hazy delirium of Salome's crawling riff through a bizarre and incoherent reprimand, or the compulsive thrusting depravity in "Ass Fucking Murder", or the gleefully strummed Stoogian party-sadism of "Slutmaster" with its hoarse dehumanising shouts of "CHEAP FUCKING MEAT", or the appalling precipice of indecision featured in the dirge-like "Maybe", or the grating slither halfway between inebriation and withdrawal through abject squalor and wilful self-destruction in the riff of "Down in the Gutter", or the simultaneous apex and nadir of depravity in the grimy remorseless groove of closer "Filthy Fuck". Each riff is oozing with the kind of personality that gets you put on government lists, splattering imagery of murder, rape, and torture in triumphant smears across the canvas of the listener's guilty conscience.

But let's address the apparently important notion of the ultimate point of Brainbombs' transgressive lyrical content. Whether choice lines like "maybe I should fuck you and your baby" are a deliberately crude commentary on the repercussions of a sex-as-commodity society, ramblings like "don't need any surrogate // wife cunt flesh" all stem from the mind of one cartoonishly disturbed character, sentiments such as "the smell of discharge // makes me hard" are actually the kind of wacky insane shit that the members of Brainbombs advocate or admire, or it's all exactly what it seems to be: a big stupid childish joke, it doesn't really matter. Anything that evokes an emotive response should be considered art, no matter what that response is. And when the riffs are this well written, who cares.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
ffs
April 9th 2015


6327 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

how do people bypass the swearword censor these days? cant get those letters the right size

Ryus
April 9th 2015


37886 Comments


awesome!!

BMDrummer
April 9th 2015


15164 Comments


hell yes a ffs rev

Supercoolguy64
April 9th 2015


11850 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

great rev, jammed obey a while back and it was 'k. might check this out tho

WeepingBanana
April 10th 2015


11395 Comments


this is the only brainbombs i've heard. i really gotta check their other stuff

deathschool
April 10th 2015


28936 Comments


This review is a masterpiece.

Dryden
April 10th 2015


13585 Comments


love this album

rasputin
April 10th 2015


14968 Comments


yer classic rock tunes right here

they have no bad material imo

Ryus
April 10th 2015


37886 Comments


best brainbombs right here

Chortles
April 10th 2015


21494 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yum

ffs
April 11th 2015


6327 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

he dont need any surrogate cunt wife flesh are some of the most empowering lyrics ive heard

Ryus
April 13th 2015


37886 Comments


slayer is so fucking good
this is so consistent

emester
April 13th 2015


8271 Comments


This looks intresting

Ryus
April 13th 2015


37886 Comments


check it out dude its so fuckin good

emester
April 14th 2015


8271 Comments


listening to Slayer right now.

Shits demented as all hell. I dig it

ffs
April 14th 2015


6327 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

youre a sexy bitch



but you stink!!

Chortles
April 14th 2015


21494 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

^best line

ffs
May 9th 2015


6327 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i live to hate

Chortles
May 12th 2015


21494 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

riffs riffs riffs riffs

Supercoolguy64
May 23rd 2015


11850 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I AM ZE SLAYER

BLAD IS MY GAME

I HATE ZE WEAK



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