mindful of metal

The entirety of the dissonant-death-black-core infantry is mired in the trenches of ulceration. No forward movement. Total trench-foot. Nothing new. But here comes Dormant Ordeal with no fucks, going over the top, charging across no-man's land, power-sliding through muddy craters, single-handedly assaulting the enemy and charging off to who the fuck knows where. Tooth and Nail is a mind-blowing achievement of progress. Dissonance is subverted and distorted by seductive anti-melodies. Rhythmically speaking, Dormant Ordeal deal in impossibilities. The drums are staccato-speedy enough to set off a Geiger counter. The guitars, though... These are riffs that would do fine enough with tremolo-picking, but instead they're often palm-muted and downpicked with impossible exactitude and speed. What the fuck, I say. I hear a lot of Vader in the relentless dedication to speed, and that permanent allegiance to Polish precision likely drives my adulation. Tooth and Nail isn...