Reviews:
Havoc website:
This band has a distinct style within
the strong tradition of Swedish hardcore. The riffs are raw
and powerful, with haunting melody over a storm of raw sonic
shrapnel. Two guitars trade off sledgehammer riffs and driving
melodic leads. The vocals are searing and raw shouts of rage
against the horror of 21st century industrial terror and war.
This LP is a titanic blast of raw käng power.
MRR #270 - November 2005
Overpowering, heavy-as-fuck Swedish hardcore. Martyrdöd
tune those guitars down low and have a thundering, dramatic
thick sound with metallic leanings, but it moves like crazy.
Somber melodies and texture under the mayhem which features
howling vocals accompanied by two guitars, bass and drums pumping
it out. Lyrics are in Swedish, but the words convey agony and
pain and English translations of the titles - "Welcome
to the kingdom of the death", "A collision course
between two worlds", "Hear warning" - give a
good indication of the dark-hued themes. Soul-screaming pulverization.
(Al Quint)
Bite The Hand That Feeds The Poisoned
Food #4 - November 2004
Holy Jesus Fuck. This is amazing. I thought the first album
was really excellent but the band didn't perpare me for something
as good as this either with that or when I saw them play since
then. So fucking heavy really fucking metal crust with a totally
driving razor edge.The production is immaculate (I hear they
paid quite a prize but it totally paid off) and the sound is
more powerful than the vast majority of recent crust records
I've heard. The lyrics are also even more metal than the first
record, i really wish I could make out more of them out because
what I'm able to is so fucking good but it's all in Swedish.
Completely bitter and pesimistic, I really fucking like this
in that it definitely sounds contemporary and not at all like
it's copying a band from the 80's, but at the same time it's
not watered down and weak and fucking emo-sounding like so many
supposed crust bands of recent times.. Probably the best record
I've gotten this year so far, you really need this. Puts Martyrdöd
at the top of my list of current crust bands beside Hellshock.
Pity about the shite cover artwork, what is that? There's a
fuck of a lot of shitty artwork on punk records these days.
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