WATCHMAKER — Kill. Fucking. Everyone.

WATCHMAKER

Kill. Fucking. Everyone. (2003)

Label: Willowtip Records
★★★½ 7/10
By Soulside

Track Listing

  1. The Burden of Choice
  2. Catalepsy of Fear
  3. Conference Call Immolation
  4. Maddening Assault
  5. Civic Bloodlust
  6. Great Misleader
  7. Demonically Entrenched
  8. Sheathed in Blood
  9. The Wrong End of Living
  10. Multitask Suicide
  11. Nihilism and Despair
  12. The Widening Stain
  13. Jesus is Coming
  14. Irrational Hate Soaked Fury
  15. Wallet Sized Dental Records
  16. Mildewed Death Trap
  17. Repent and Perish
  18. Trial by Barrage
  19. Steaming Pile of Outcome Measures

After listening to this album, I didn't immediately sit down to write this review. Despite the rather short duration of the disc — 29:58 minutes — the concentration of fury and aggression is enough to fill several death or black metal albums. I needed half an hour to recover.

30 minutes of extremely aggressive and absolutely destructive old-school grindcore will leave few listeners standing. The moral of all this madness is simple and expressed in the title of this work — Kill. Fucking. Everyone.

At times mind-blowingly insane, at times seriously groovy, and at times aggressive and completely anti-musical — as it should be by definition — the material doesn't exactly delight or hook you, but it compels you to listen through to the end. Perhaps that's because everything happens so fast you simply don't have time to understand what's going on.

Incidentally, for me the reason for this heroic feat was the total maniac of a vocalist, who is most likely a complete psychopath and lunatic. At times the insane effect is achieved precisely thanks to him — he growls, shrieks, and for the most part hysterically screams throughout the entire duration of the disc (I haven't heard such hysteria in a long time).

To summarize: if you are not a fan of such an extreme genre as grindcore, don't torment yourself — listen to something more palatable. Otherwise you risk getting a migraine.

Only for true maniacs.