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Lehavoth
Hatred Shaped Man
(Fadeless - 2002)
Another long-running Israeli underground band (since 1995) that wanders from sound to sound and different line-up changes, only releasing scattered demos, and a single full-length album. Uniquely, they are one of the only bands I know of that moved from melodic metal (derivative Dark Tranquillity stuff), to brutal death/grindcore, rather than the other way round. Produced by Talarczyk from Nasum, and it shows, the sound here is extremely low-end, practically sludgy, all muddy roars and growls, with razors inside. It's death-grind through and through, shifting from brutal-death riffing, to grinding & grooving low-tuned guitars with sick deep bark-growl vocals, to some rare wailing chaotic guitar solos, to pure grindcore blast-beats, and some harsh mechanical-sounding howling guitars. Although this is not my genre, as I find it very limiting and prefer more focus on musical structure and development rather than constant punishing grinding sounds and changing riffs, this changes things up just minimally enough to keep it from being monotonous. Nasum fans should check it out.
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