Century Media
2006
Assassination
About This Album
Because Krisiun's most recent release, 2004's Bloodshed, had been a combination mini-album/EP reissue, 2006's Assassination constitutes the Brazilian death metal institution's first all-new album in nearly three years -- one of the longest gestation periods afforded by their obsessively workaholic habits. And, whether it served to regenerate the band's creative juices, or, more likely, simply give their critics and fans some time to actually start missing them again, this break certainly enhances Assassination's arrival with a palpable feeling of excitement. A good thing, too, since bludgeoning opener "Bloodfire" seems almost stubbornly defiant in its unforgiving, remorseless death metal onslaught; as if Krisiun are literally staring down all those who in the past accused them of committing extremity for mere extremity's sake, with an insolent: "So what?" Next track "Natural Genocide" is noticeably more pliant with its harmonic staccato riffs, and its immediate follow-up, "Vicious Wrath," is decidedly more straightforward in the arranging (not to mention that old-school thrash metal title), but only barely so -- making it crystal clear that Krisiun are out to satisfy no one but themselves and their die-hard fans here.
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