Didn't realize it until I looked up the record on Discogs.com, but I was surprised to find that The World Doomed To Violence is actually the first-ever full-length album from this longrunning Japanese grind/sludge outfit, despite them having been around for around twenty years. During all that time, Su19b have mainly focused on releasing their music as splits with other bands, but it's taken them all this time to finally deliver their own album. And boy it it a beast. From it's stark black and white artwork that combines anatomical imagery with old-school death metal style horrors, to the band's rapid-fire assault of ultra-heavy powerviolence, this record is grim stuff. Starting off with a statick-laced noisescape draped in sinister voices and samples, billowing gusts of dark ambient sound and rumbling distorted guitar drones, the epic title track unfurls slowly across the beginning of the aklbum, as monstrously slow and abject as Corrupted, the guttural inhuman gurgling vocals oozing over the slo-motion crawl. But that rapidly mutates into a frenzy of shifting brutality, erupting into sludgy punk-fueled death metal and hyperspeed blastcore and depth-charge doom, vacillating between these sounds over the course of the track. From there the rst of the album blasts through shorter songs, but continues to shamble monstrously through that increasingly weird melange of sludge-encrusted metal, and further lacing this violent combo of powerviolent chaos and molten, rotten deathdoom with eerie chantlike vocals, short, brooding passages of windswept slowcore-like minimalism, surges of chaotic lopsided hardcore and intense Merzbowian electronic noise, and even the occasional searing twin-guitar harmony.

Those powerviolence traits are all over this, from the barbaric hyperfast hardcore riffing to the sudden and jarring start/stop arrangements, but they shroud those elements in a ghastly glacial death metal heavioisty that makes it all sound freshly bizarre

Might be the heaviest stuff from them so far, continuing to mine that Corrupted-meets-Crossed Out sound that the band christened back in 1997