Album: Bleeding Stump
Artist: Total Rusak
Label: Rottrevore (2004)
Track Listing:
1-Intro
2-Psycho of War
3-Humanity is zero
4-Bleeding Stump
5-Fear Inside
6-Horror Communicated
7-CMP
8-Victim by Massacre
9-Mati Anjiang

I don’t have chance to listen to their past release, “Exploding the Cranial” (2002) yet, but “Bleeding Stump” simply exploding listeners to what the critics said about New York death metal sounds pioneered by the legend Suffocation. Brutal death metal percussive riffology and palm-muted chugs at the blazing speed of power metal built into complex and conflicting song arrangement with bizarre tempos.

Surely there are differences in here and there from the masterpiece influencer Suffocation. Drums snare is set at higher pitch and tight, as well as guitars/stringed instruments seem to be higher than usual extra low tuning those blastbeat-death metallers often utilized. The hardcore voices screamed by Pay still comprehensible convey social-politics messages. Nova, the guitarist banging the muffled strings up and down relentlessly produces precise crushing notes. In general, the guitar/bass riffs and drum patterns are less conflicting, less impulsive and volatile than Suffocation or Dying Fetus.

Looking for the most brutal and sadistic Indonesian metal band, Total Rusak are not your answer. There are lots of heavier, faster, more brutal bands out there, but simply Total Rusak delivers the audience high quality melodic-percussive riffs off the trends of dreary and dull “older style” death metal.

Forget the intro track; it’s just a pretty lame clean guitar solo with poetic style vocal, but the message is quite outstanding though, if you understand the Minang language and local social politics behind it.

Total Rusak’s lyrics intelligently capturing social and political decays. Sarcastic critics and protests against war, corruptions, politics, greed, inhumanity, have placed the band among other respective brainy death metal bands.

Production wise, Bleeding Stump is pretty good for underground band. Noise is absent and every instrument kept its own clarity to maintain the details. Bass is tight but not so deep. The thumping palm-muted chops are less heavy and meaty than they should be. Don’t know why the drum sound of choice doesn’t match with the song grooves, perhaps they should lower the tuning and/or loosen the snare lugs a bit, whatever. Nevertheless, Total Rusak’s skillful Bleeding Stump is one of heavy and sharp album you may want to check further.

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

Comments

NEWBIE！！！ Written by Guest on 2005-02-07 01:43:18 牛逼！！！我是他们的中国歌迷，同样也是个死亡金属吉他手，很高兴来到这里！

NEWBIE.... Written by malique on 2005-02-07 02:25:13 Hello there  please comment in english too, I don't understand what you wrote       thanks

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