Metalrage's [b]DemonDust[/b] plunges into the Death Metal world of Misery Index..[/b] I don�t buy a lot of death metal but occasionally, I just fucking have to or I�ll explode! So this time I chose Retaliate from Misery Index. A very very good choice if I do say so myself. � An eerie guitar screaming introduction comes out of the speaker, shortly followed by a brutal double bass. �Retaliate� has commenced to kill my brains. This is death metal the way it pleases me a lot. The brutal kind that chops a piece out of your brain, but still shows that a lot of thought was put in the riffs and drum parts. And how I love them squeaking, yelling, rotten guitar solo�s that death metal has, the one in this song is a good example of it. � Going to �The Lies That Bind� which takes the CD to a more brutal level than it already was. Good fast kicking pass in this second track that blasts your freaking head off. � �The Great Depression� seems to be slower than the first two tracks but that thought is quickly eliminated. It appears to be, yes you guessed it, fucking brutal!!! Man how I adore the violence coming down on me. � Up next is the ultra fast song �Angst Isst Die Seele Auf�. Yes that really is the name of the song and no it isn�t entirely German. Just the chorus. The song title means �Fear Eats The Soul� and that�s just what would happen when you force a disabled priest to listen to this record. The pass in this track stays up really well and the bridge part is really cool. At this point I start noticing the cool sound their snare drum has. It�s really short but powerfull, fitting in just fine. � �Demand The Impossible� is not a reason to slow down. The vocals in this song remind me a bit of the hardcore screams of Burnt By The Sun, which to me means that this record keeps getting better. Vae Victis! � The song �Order Upheld/Dissident Dissolved� seems to be letting out a lot of anger. But then again, death metal does that a lot so this won�t be an exception. The ending is really cool because they do a little aggressive last burst just when you think the next song will start. � At this stage, your brain is fried and your nuts got run over by what seems to be the biggest fucking truck on the planet, and it still isn�t over. I love it! �Servants Of Progress� mutilates you once more. The ending has been done really good because it has Jason screaming �is this how we want to live� And immediately the next song starts. � That next song they call �The Unbridgeable Chasm� is really brutal and loaded with some kind of metaphorical anti-politician lyrics. Cool! The bridge is really ass-kicking too. � Little drum intro for �Bottom Feeders� going into a riff and then to a reasonable pass. Later on it gets faster of course. Can�t stand on one basskick now can you? This album is really starting to capture the idea of being really really REALLY angry, which is good of course. � �History Is Rotten� basically captures the Braveheart idea. History is made by the people who dominate the land, and that�s wrong. So Misery Index wrote a song about it. And yes this kicks your butt-plug accommodated anus as well. The Brutal Truth cover �Birth Of Ignorance� sounds fantastic tool. But I don�t know the original so I can�t compare. Bummer. But I�ll bet my nextdoor neighbours lives on it that Brutal Truth is not complaining about Misery Index playing their song. � And then ladies and gentlemen, it�s over. Peace returns into the room, aggression leaves your body and you ask yourself two things. The first is: What the fuck did I just listen to? The second is: Did anybody get the license plate of that tank? Wait a minute, do tanks have license plates? Aargh fuck it. Anyway, if you�re into the Dying Fetus kind of death metal, buy this fucking album! And if you�re looking for a brutal band that doesn�t have childish gory lyrics but something meaningfull, you�ve just found it. Retaliate!!!!!!!!!!!!!! � Damn I gotta get a beer and listen to this shit again! �