One thing that makes Traitors easier for me to enjoy than
any of Misery Index’s other albums is the bass. Although I like the material on
Discordia, the overall sound gets irritating after a while because of the major
lack in the lower end. If you want a Misery Index album that doesn’t have too
much treble and tons of bass, Traitors is what you need to be listening to
right now. Most of the grindcore elements that Misery Index uses are the
extremely chaotic, but atmospheric elements that Cattle Decapitation is known
for. But hey! This is fucking Misery
Index here! There can’t be Misery Index without grinding brutality!
I’ll tell you this, Traitors doesn’t disappoint. From the
second the intro concludes to the insane drumming at the end of the last song,
Misery Index continues to pound you into the dirt, proving that their fame is
well-deserved and that they have no plans of slowing down anytime in the near
future. It seems that in the death grind genre, the drummer usually ends up
being the best member of the band. Either that or it’s common for the drummer to
be outstanding. I’m not kidding either, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus,
Carcass, Wormed, Exhumed, Skinless, Severe Torture, and General Surgery ALL
have REALLY good drummers! But besides Wormed and the first two that I listed,
Misery Index has one of the best drummers in the genre.
Not only is the grindcore sound lacking in the overall
music, but also in the vocals especially. The vocalist primarily does exhaled
growls that sound a little bit like yelling (you can hear some voice in his
growls) similar to the sound of the vocals from Vader and Jungle Rot. Don’t
expect something with as much voice as Vader though, I was just saying that the
vocals on this record resemble that sound, but with less voice and more growl.
Also, I think I should mention that there aren’t any screams on this record (that
I can remember, I might be wrong), so don’t expect the whole growl-scream
switch that bands like Dying Fetus and Exhumed do.
Like I said before, the overall sound of the album is very
powerful and has a lot more death metal than grindcore in most of the songs. My
favorite song off this record is Theocracy; not only for the drumming, but also
for the crushing sections that were created for headbanging (that can also be
found on almost all of the other tracks, especially the title track). I would
give Traitors a solid 14/20 for being one of the more important death grind
records and certainly one that I would recommend to death metal and death grind
fans.
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