I Want To Kill You! Just the very name of this band alone should tell you that you are in for something pretty extreme.

I Want To Kill You are from Kutztown, Pennsylvania. They consider themselves a decisively controlled, bizarre, chaotic and brutal hardcore/death metal band with a sense of humor. Drummer Rich Buffin provides the death metal/grindcore influences. Bass player Sean Cameron's styles include funk and jazz. Eclectic guitarist Mike Ernstam brings just about a little of everything to the table. Henry Kryeski and Troy Hinson bring the vocal screams of pain!

The "music" of I Want To Kill You can be compared to that of someone with Tourette's syndrome. At times the music is mid-paced, and grinding. There are even times when one can find some rare but very melodic musical passages. But at any given moment and without warning, the music switches directions towards something much more intense, bombastic and painful!

Some of the songs have very out of place transitional "interludes". A song like "Look Who's Made A Masterpiece" is a 16 second track which is very classical in nature, containing flutes, what sounds like a clavichord, and some strings. "It Ain't Over Till The Fatlady Sings" is a 9 minute piece of electronic industrial, sampled loops. After the first 5 seconds of this song, I wished for nothing more than for the Fatlady to sing! "After School Bukake" and "Aim For The Throat" are just two of the many intense, grindcore, extreme death metal songs to be found on this album. There is even a video of the track "Drawn And Quartered At Gunpoint".

I can tolerate most extreme death metal musically and for the most part the songs that I Want To Kill You offer do have some cool metallic riffs and drumming. But it's the "screaming like you are being tortured to death" vocal styles that at times can be a bit nauseating. Lyrically, some of the songs are humorous but this can only be enjoyed with a lyric sheet as the interpretation of the words through the singing is unintelligible.

I would only recommend this album to those people that are fans of extreme brands of metal.