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Recorded at Blue Meenie Studios, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Audio Mixers: Dan Iannuzzelli; Billy Milano.
Scar Culture's feral grindcore is distinguished not only by its sheer velocity, but also its ability to occasionally groove. Inscribe, the N.Y.C. quartet's debut, is patterned after classics like Slayer's Reign in Blood; the songs, most of which are barely longer than two minutes (owing to hardcore's sense of brevity), are quick surgical strikes of concentrated death metal brutality, and the whole record is paced to pummel, without letting up for so much as a second. While tracks like "Reform Reason" occasionally break down to effective mid-tempo sections, the record generally passes at light speed. Billy Milano (S.O.D.) provides effectively crushing production values and brings a certain amount of definition out of the band's blinding onslaught. Look out for the excellent cover of Faith No More's "Surprise, You're Dead" at the end of the disc. ~ Andy Hinds