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| The Sweet Metal Band are a metal band from Spain forming in 1999, releasing six albums over a two decade career. The bands most recent album 'The Fight Club' was released in 2023... | ||||||
| ...but rather than "not talk about fight club" - I'm prepared to incur the wrath of Tyler Durden by talking about fight club! That is the album 'The Fight Club' by Spanish metallers The Sweet Metal Band, and not the 1999 film 'Fight Club' starring Brad Pitt as salesman turned underground fight promoter Tyler Durden! | ||||||
| "sweet" can be described as "pleasant, gentle and tender" - three words that have no bearing on how I'd describe The Sweet Metal Band! Their three words would be aggressive, harsh and brutal - a heavy industrial tinged metallic metalcore sound emanating from the bands new album, delivering a devastating punch and crunch to break bones and smash skulls! The band are in mean mood right from the off, with album opener 'Simply Unbearable' a crushing cacophony of brash riffs and harsh vocals. The band were full of aggression and angst seven years ago when the Spaniards first came across my radar - now projecting an air of menace and sinister savagery. If you're expecting a melodic metal album, you're looking in the wrong fucking place - this is thrash infused industrial metal with power and force, 'Hell Is Full' a terrifying tirade of anger fuelled aggression! There is no light here, only dark... | ||||||
| ...dark as the darkest night - yet for a moment The Sweet Metal Band lift the atmosphere and deliver a sound somewhere near the Megadeth realm for 'Terror Opera'. Albeit the vocal performance sounding much more pissed off than even Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine. 'Terror Opera' will send the mosh pits in to an absolute frenzy, with circles of death forming everywhere! Pace and power treble for the fast paced 'Haters', banging heads harder than ever, wrecking necks for fun as though it's a sport! And if you're worried about injuries, you ain't a real metalhead - 'cause we don't give a fuck if we get injured, it's the pleasure of the metal music that we care about! And the pleasure oozing from 'The Fight Club' is a searing barrage of S&M! 'The Hypnotist' is a heavy hypnotic foot stomp with growled vocals, hitting much heavier than anything heard so far. Even a jack hammer smashing concrete seems tame to the ferocious hammering dished out by 'The Hypnotist' - and if you're seeking any kind of painkilling medication right now, The Sweet Metal Band is not the band for you! | ||||||
| With the pummelling rising to new heights, the album thunders on with the bludgeoning 'Black Cloud Storm', and a terrifying increase in brute force - 'The Fight Club' an incredible and unrelenting barrage of savagery. I haven't been battered this much since I was pushed in the fryer down at the local fish and chip shop (insert laughing emoji here). That's not true by the way...I don't think I would have survived a deep fat battering! That would've been a severe case of violent assault and battery though - with The Sweet Metal Band providing the musical soundtrack! With an increase in everything from the aggression to the menace, the band storm on with the raucous 'Violence', spitting venom, snapping bones and crushing skulls. The Spanish outfit really are a brutal force of nature, a force not to be fucked with, 'cause you're destined to lose! And what the fuck's that? 'Enjoy The Silence' sounding ever so familiar - 'cause it's a spectacular cover of the Depeche Mode classic, taken from the bands 1990 album 'Violator'. And for those who don't know who Depeche Mode are, they're a British electronic pop music band formed in the early eighties - the band releasing 'Enjoy The Silence' as a single in 1990, entering the UK top ten singles charts, and reaching the number one spot in the Spanish charts! Which also just happens to be the country that The Sweet Metal Band hail from...how spooky is that! | ||||||
| And back to ground shaking thunder we go, courtesy of the booming 'So Stupid' - and a groove metal riff just to spice things up. For in among all the metal, thrash, industrial and electronic pop music, groove was one style we've not heard yet! The band remain in menacing mood, delivering yet another crushing cacophony of rip roaring metal. And as the album enters its final stretch, 'The Fight Club' has been a brutally aggressive journey of blistering heaviness, anger and angst. However, 'Sinisterly Absurd' is the most "heavy metal" song on offer - still crushingly heavy, yet featuring many traits of the iconic canter of traditional heavy metal. Bringing the album to a close, 'When The Blood Boils' is a departure from everything heard so far - for the first few seconds anyway! Then The Sweet Metal Band turn 'When The Blood Boils' on its head, setting the touch paper alight and firing missile after missile at an unsuspecting audience. An explosive conclusion to what has been an explosive and highly devastating album. | ||||||
| Overall, crushing brutality mixed with aggression culminating in a harsh thrash come industrial metal fuelled rampage. | ||||||
| Review by Iron Mathew Collins | ||||||
| Reviewed for The Sweet Metal Band | ||||||
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