ITP V.021 REVIEW: ZOEBEAST: "ADUCKOLYPSE"

 

 BAND: ZOEBEAST (RUSSIA)

GENRE: DEATH/GRIND AND ROLL

LABEL: COYOTE RECORDS.

 RELEASE DATE: 2/1/2021

TITLE: "ADUCKOLYPSE"

 

ZOEBEAST:    PREVIOUS RELEASES (CATALOG): 

" ZOEBEAST", 3/29/2018 via ROTTEN ROLL REX

"BAD GIRLS" (EP), 2/13/2015 via BANDCAMP. 

"GORE DANCEFLOOR", 1/26/2013 via COYOTE RECORDS. 

"WAKO INVASION" (EP), 1/1/2012 via BANDCAMP. 

"VENGEANCE Z-SQUAD", 7/14/2009 via DAC PRODUCTIONS.

ZOEBEAST: "ADUCKOLYPSE": TRACK LISTING: 

1. INTRODUCTION 

2. THE RETURN OF THE MIGHTY CRYSTAL GOOSE

3. BILLFACED PESTILENCE

4. GORE KILL FUCK DIE 

5. BLACK DUCK HUNGER FUCK 

 6. DEATH AND HELL 

7. QUAKE TIME 

8. ADUCKOLYPSE

BEST RELEASE(S):  "ADUCKOLYPSE" (2021), "GORE DANCEFLOOR" (2013) 

 

  ITP RATING:****
PRODUCTION: ****
SONGWRITING: *** 1/2
PERFORMANCE: ****

 

 ZOEBEAST are a Russian deathgrind band with elements of techno (house), rap and other subgenres. Here we have ZOEBEAST'S new release "ADUCKOLYPSE" and the bands cheeky sense of humor. 

 ZOEBEAST''S: "ADUCKOLYPSE" opens with an " INTRODUCTION", the sound of horses galopping to gun shots in the wind and segues into instrumental rock. . 

 ZOEBEAST''S: "THE RETURN OF THE MIGHTY CRYSTAL GOOSE" is a banger with basic thrash metal and strong death and screamed vocals. Melodic with prominent bass and a punk attitude, 

 ZOEBEAST''S "BILLFACED PESTILENCE" is a punk influenced track with some intense gurgled vocals and a good solo.  BILLFACED PESTILENCE" even employs a goose quacking as the track  and should get a pit going.

ZOEBEAST''S "GORE KILL FUCK DIE", is a death grind track complete with thrash and blast beats and a operatic (funny) chorus. 

 ZOEBEAST'S "BLACK DUCK HUNGER FUCK ", is pure death, grind, thrash with SLAYER influenced riff wandering through this rager. 

.  ZOEBEAST'S  " DEATH AND HELL" is another thrash infused rager with excellent death and screamed vocal interplay, but WAIT. At 1:30, . ZOEBEAST get cheeky with rendition of  (a marching band?) something you hear at a college football game, complete with synths, horns, a bass solo and cartoon like ending. COOL. 

  ZOEBEAST  "QUAKE TIME", redefines death grind as at :38 into the track the band bring down the house with some good rapping and back into some vicious death grind. 

  ZOEBEAST close the album with the title track "ADUCKOLYPSE", a post hardcore anthem for duck lovers.

 ZOEBEAST seamlessly meld multiple genres including punk, rap, hardcore, thrash, death/grind into a cauldron of humor and cheeky pit anthems. .  

 ZOEBEAST perform their brand of death grind with competent, tight musicianship. 

 ZOEBEAST'S willingness to experiment set them apart from their often generic peers. 

If ZOEBEAST haven't performed at the CZECH death/grind core fest OBSCENE EXTREME, they should.  

Some my find  ZOEBEAST' "too weird" for their taste, but I say the weirder, the better.  

Nothing says grindcore like pit anthems about ducks.

  

 

 

 ITP RATING:****
PRODUCTION: ****
SONGWRITING: *** 1/2
PERFORMANCE: ****

 

 

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