MATTERHORN - Crass Cleansing
€5.00
MATTERHORN - Crass Cleansing
€5.00
Formed in 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland of all places Matterhorn are a blast of freshly thrashing air who combine the angularity of hardcore, the precision of 80’s speed metal with the aggressive attack of proto-death metal. At face value their sound and style is immediately reminiscent of the most primal visions of Celtic Frost and Dream Death thanks to unholy cyclical riffing and an unholy grunt up front. On ‘Crass Cleansing’ have achieved something truly special in creating rhythm guitar runs that are so enthralling you’ll quickly slap the decades of Hellhammer influenced riffing you’ve collected off the shelf.
... If you have no love for the graves and altars of bands like Hellhammer, Dream Death, and Slaughter you should either remedy that with further listening or use Matterhorn‘s modern evolution towards greater precision and dynamism as an induction into the greater potential of early extreme metal’s speed metallic attack, doom-dripping riffs, and ultimate deathly candor. Easily one of the best debuts of the year and with great promise of more to come.
Released by Destruktion Records out of Germany. Limited to 200 copies.
Listen: https://matterhorn.bandcamp.com/album/crass-cleansing-2
