Ebolie -
Elevation into Disintegration
Grindhead
Records
is proud to unleash the highly infectious disease that is Ebolie's
Elevation Into Disintegration - a drug crazed violent grind attack on a
slowly decaying society. Including the tracks Queens of the Scene Age and
Foetal Grindings.
The devastation commences October 29, 2004.
Tracklist:
1.
Blood Tapped Skull
2. Elevation into Disintegration
3. Human Errror
4. Straight Edgetasy
5. Queens of the Scene Age
6. Work Forced
7. Foetal Grindings
8.
Rape of Sanity
9. Queer Eye for the Metrosexual
Reviews
"In 2004's
Elevation Into Disintegration, Ebolie have offered up a recording with one boot
thrust firmly into the neck snapping avalanche that typifies the grindcore
sound, while the other boot can be heard, at times, stomping down rhythms,
formats, and structures that pump some fresh blood into the sound.
As the gate drops down, frontman Bubsy and company waste no time in lunging for
the throat with "Blood Tapped Skull", a well-placed opener, as it deals out the
straight-down-the-skull Grindcore Aesthetic: faster than thou, angrier than
thou, and harder than thou. After two minutes and nine seconds, you know where
things stand.
The overall title track is accented in no small part by the production.
Traditionally, the productive side of grind tends to favor dirtiness and
sludginess--- lending itself to choatic atonalty. With "Elevation Into
Disintegration", the production is more crisp, and has a live, up-front feel to
it. Not a bad approach for a sound/message that, naturally, is confrontational
and jarring. The type of production utilized reveals the title track (and the
span of the recording) to be checkered with interesting harmonized arrangements,
and even (albeit brief) the clean channel phrases found in "Elevation Into
Disintegration", "Human Error", and the humorously out of place, swing-time
jazz/fusion opening of "Foetal Grindings". With "Foetal Grindings", I find what
is arguably the most compositionally ambitious track contained within "Elevation
Into Disintegration". It also holds the distinction of of being the "longest"
track on the recording, clocking in at a hefty three minutes and forty-four
seconds. Remember--- with grindcore, a three minute song stretched into a
"normal" tempo would likely yield up a nine minute recording.
Even still, when speaking of their status as a primarily death/grind act, Ebolie
assaults the senses in this style with alarming ease in cuts "Rape of Sanity",
"Straight Edgetesy", and in particular "Work Forced"--- a potent, scathing
example of Ebolie's ability to skillfully blend the death and grind elements,
where quick, clean shouts swap punches with dirge-like growls. "Queens of the
Scene Age" not only maintains this intensity, but opens with classic
"four-on-the-floor" metal riffing, dives headlong into death/grind, and comes
out on the change with a spinning snap into hardcore punk.
... and it is this versatility that gives the creative element of Ebolie its
greatest potential.
Elevation Into Disintegration is both a welcome and necessary acquisition for
loyal grindheads, in addition to those who have a taste for the more extreme,
underground areas of metal itself. I encourage both the former and the latter to
branch out and explore. Do yourself a favor, and jump over to the band's
official website: www.ebolie.com
I can only hope that their recent line up changes will only serve to further
enhance the seeds of potential that I hear on "Elevation Into Disintegration".
Within the context of the genre, this recording is a solid 9.1" -antiMUSIC