Album: Hipertensi
Artist: Sucker Head
Label: Krossover-2004
Track Listing:
1. Depresimania
2. Dominasi
3. Stop
4. Emosi
5. Hak Asasi
6. Seribu Mimpi
7. Penjajah
8. Lupa Diri
9. Hipertensi
10. Tidak Kontrol
11. Sucker Head
12. Seribu Mimpi (Remix)

Musicianship
Guitar rhythm and solo, to my ears, revealing excellent playability bounded in heavy metal domain. Some short shredding solos and fretboard navigation tandem both guitarist performed showing their maturity in musicianship. Drums performances are okay though I couldn’t find something extraordinary there. Krisna vocals character singing tends to simplify the notes so don’t expect melodic-harmonic ballads here.

Songwriting
Funny insignificant thing, I don’t know why Krisna singing a word “Heyy” a lot in this album hence it would be more suitable if the album titled “Heyy” rather than “Hipertensi”. Or maybe he inspired by James Hetfield’s “Yeahh” trademark.
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“Seribu Mimpi” offers classic slow song composed in orchestration and excellent melody that has good initial impression with heavy headbanging riffs in the middle. “Hipertensi” and “Hak Asasi” are quite good, heavy rhythm on “Stop” is adrenaline-pumper while “Depresimania” is proper opening track representing Sucker Head characterization, heavy low string downstroke sledgehammers remind to early 80ies Metallica period.
 
Dig further I couldn’t find jaw-dropping riffing texture here; it’s uncomplicated, market friendly, and easy to swallow song grooves though I must praise to outstanding solo guitars. They also remix “Seribu Mimpi” with MIDI which might be sound ridiculous to metalheads but as Krisna said, “We’re progressing to open new modernization in our music”

Recording
Krisna’s veteran experience in studio works as a producer undeniably contributes to the Hipertensi production quality. Guitars are superb and heavy bursting heavy metal sound backed up by fat and defined bass tracks with clear throaty vocals. The E string downstroke sounds so thick and chunky as if Pithecanthropus Erectus fossil hears this he would be back to life joining the headbanging pit. Cymbals and percussion are crisp and clear with deep and percussive kickdrum.

My only whine on snare drums sound of choice, it’s too low tuning for heavy/thrash metal style. My individual commonsense would be tight, loud and responsive as demonstrated by Ulrich, Cavalera, DeGrasso/Menza, and such. It is strange to my ears that kind of metal flows guarded by “suffocation/psycroptic” snare. Aside from that, “Hipertensi” production’s exceptional.

Songwriting 4/5
Musicianship 4/5
Recording 5/5

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