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I don't feel like this genre is dying. I hope it's not. This is a great album to show the depth of the genre. There are some great grind bands out there and many of them do not sound alike.
I wish I could hear the guitars a little better on the first half of the album. I wouldn't be surprised if they recorded some songs at completely different studios or with completely different engineers or something. Regardless, there is a sort of esoteric nature to this style of music which makes me wonder if it would hold the same mystique if the guitars were mixed a little higher. So, I guess they probably know better than me what it should sound like and what I'm going to like. I'm really impressed with this album so I proved my own point.
Innovators will usually win us over with their vision and not their ability to follow mixing or production trends but rather their ability to make us not even care about those things. This album is a dark, drunk, apocalyptic, sonic soundscape. I give it a 88. Enjoy!!!
Grind has great depth in my opinion: Birdflesh, Car Bomb, Circle of Dead Children, Total Fucking Destruction, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Fuck the Facts, Agathocles, Nazum, Blood Freak, Cephalic Carnage, Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Despise You, Noise Ear, Rotten Sound, Insect Warfare, Wormrot, and there is plenty more.
These bands all have a unique sound. Check them out if you haven't already. In my opinion, there are many grind bands that have redefined or reinforced the genre with unique music and lyrics. Their social and political viewpoints are the epitome of uninhibited expression.
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