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Artimus Pyle:
Fucked from Birth
Looking for doomy metal-core punk? Well, dont have to look too much farther Artimus Pyles Fucked from Birth speed dirges like the best of them. This album plays like a hardcore 45 spun at 33 rpm you hear the attack coming, but it doesnt quite break out of its shell. As thick as the dirtiest sludge, this album oozes down my ear canal, ripping and breaking down walls all along the way. A bit louder than the music itself, the messages and themes that it carries are extremely socially conscious and heavy. Fucked from Birth houses the main theme of coming into a society where no one person really matters or stands out; its a cry from the lips of those souls swallowed into a world in which no one cares and were all mechanically the same each one of us doomed. Artimus Pyle has fashioned a reject sound of social-oriented punk, attacking politics through social unrest and questioning our upbringing and commodification as mass produced human beings. It runs as a rally call and plea for awareness, unfortunately only reaching those who are already concerned and enamored with metal-edged punk. The lyrics are actually pretty good and very conscious, but the mode of getting them across is a little rough, sung in that charmingly generic deep-throated growl (though this singer has mastered the style). The music is low-end quality thrash with frantic speed drumming. The guitar jumps from spastic drives to slow, single-chord dirgy meditations. Somewhere between intoxicated and drowned, I feel like Ive emerged from this twenty-five minute and forty-six second slam fest a little bit lighter. Though the lyrics could be seen as conceded or angsty, I still feel that they are high quality and really work in favor of the goal of awareness. Im afraid that key ingredient of punk music is what were missing in so much music these days, and Im glad Artimus Pyle is carrying the flag. If you like attacking music that cant decide whether to flail about and cause damage or introspectively brood, this is for you. Artimus Pyle has crafted for themselves a fitting style of hardcore punk that does not hit a boring note. Though it might not seem the freshest new album of the year, it is indeed a good one and is worth checking out. I think youll be satisfied.
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