It's Monday and Mondays suck, so let's grind it out with Lurid Panacea's The Insidious Poisons.
Valentine's Day week is here and what do you think of when it comes to Valentines? Red? Pink? Hearts? The human body has plenty of red and pink and maybe, just maybe this Valentine's Day, you could give your heart over to The Insidious Poisons.
Last year Lurid Panacea released a massive heart attack of a record that I completely missed. Forty-seven slabs of blood soaked blasts that will snap the neckbones like celery. Lurid Panacea is the two person hyper-deathgrinding gore dealers Adrian Cappelleti (Incinerated) and Isaac Horne (Sulfuric Cautery, Mankind's Devestation). Being no strangers to grinding bones down to dust, the duo push their abilities to the threshold. The threshold of gory death-grinding love.
The moment one hits play Lurid Panacea get blasting like a goddamn locomotive."Disproportionate Incarceration" and "Cranial Stew" are all the introduction one needs. If you aren't taken by the insane riffing and drumming then this just ain't the one. It's pretty incredible how much these guys can fit into a bit-sized song. They're fast, filthy and very complex songs. Take "Maimed Without Hesitation." The song twitches like it is getting dissected with a jigsaw but never skimps on those blasts.
I would say other tracks like "Manipulated Swine" are among the slower, but that thing is a damn cruiser by the time it is over. "Fumes" is similar in that it's a little more death metal before going full blast furnace on the ears. The thing is that Lurid Panacea wrote 47 tracks that are really impressive and all so freaking fast that it's sensory overload. It's an aural barrage but they're so good at it. Listening to the record actively, taking it in bite after bite paints what mastery these two have over the craft.
Personally speaking it was when "Acidic Temptations" hit that the record really opened up. The track is one of the few over a minute long and goes through so many motions of blasts and riffs that it was like the band couldn't stop topping themselves second after second until things exploded into the next song.
The Insidious Poisons in the kind of record that has a lot going for it but might not be immediately apparent. Give it sometime and it'll open up your heart. It's an absolute love for the craft and showing how quickly the band can carve away a song. Grindfreaks will love it and people into death metal should find something to love here. Anyway, I'm delirious and I love you all for reading this. Condionally. And that condition is blast beats. Have a good Valentine's Day, if you do that. Or don't. It's just a day. And today is a good day to get grinding on this!
