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GERMANOTTA YOUTH  The Final Solution  7" VINYL   (Wallace)   10.98


This Italian trio dishes out some nice n' violent electro-prog-grind on The Final Solution, glomming analogue synthesizer sounds and frantic electronics onto a brutal drum attack that's fuelled equally by the extremes of European prog rock and the intensity of death/grind metal, sounding like a much more evil and murderous variation on the sort of digitized blast of bands like The Locust and early Genghis Tron. The Youth are considerably heavier sounding than most bands of this ilk, thanks to the pummeling drum work of Andrea Basili, a former member of Italian math-metallers Kailash. His frenetic pounding and twisting time signatures give the four tracks ("Theriantropon", "Demons In The Limbic Brain", "The Succubus", "Goodnight, Mankind") a hard proggy backbone around which fellow member Reeks wraps his electronics and distorted synths, while Massimo Pupillo (of prog/jazzcore legends Zu) grinds out heavy, slithering bass riffs. The circus-freak-out keyboards race at light seed over the frequent eruptions of almost mechanical blast beat mayhem, like on the precision violence of "Succubus", which sounds like a technical death metal band a la Gorguts replacing their guitars with the acid-carnival keyboards from An Albatross and cranking 'em up on PCP. Angular and savage, this song in particular stands out for its dizzying complexity, which just keeps building over the length of the song. It's the best stuff I've heard from this band yet, and definitely their heaviest. Recommended!