Blister Unit
Dengar Demo
Split w/ Bruxism
This is the second part of my attempt to catch up on all the awesome Blister Unit music I missed over the last few months.
Firstly, the Dengar demo, which the band's Bandcamp page says is their second demo - recorded in 2010 but not released on Bandcamp until June this year - and it's a very different beast from their first. While A Storm Of Corpses And Fire was standard, competently-executed grindcore, the Dengar demo is much, much bassier, more powerviolence-y, and that is a very good thing. The songs are considerably shorter - not one over one minute forty - and they all foreground the bass, to the point where the guitar is relegated to the background. That focus on the bass gives the songs a low-end heaviness and brutality that was slightly lacking on the previous demo, and it also provides that same adrenaline rush that would later make Christ Ape such an engaging record. I can't find a download button anywhere, but you should definitely listen to this one.
Rating: 9/10
Finally, there are four tracks available from the band's split with Bruxism, whose name apparently refers to an excessive grinding of the teeth (excesive grinding - geddit?). Once again, the tracks are short, the longest being one minute and forty two seconds, but in contrast to the Dengar demo the band stick more to the treble end of things; the guitars cut like razors and the vocals sound slightly higher-pitched, while the bass sits in the background, providing a solid, er, base for the songs. This is a damn good set of songs - they hit fast and hard, and quit before you have time to acclimatise. I still prefer the Dengar demo, but these tracks are well worth the five minutes it will take to listen to them.
Rating: 7/10
Free music
Lastly, here's a new track from yours truly - it's off my upcoming album Fireworks.
https://georgejones1.bandcamp.com/
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