Cephalic Carnage - Misled by Certainty
Band Origin: Edgewater, Colorado, USA
Genre: Grindcore / Death Metal (Rock Mountain Hydro Grind)
Label: Relapse Records
Running Time: 54 minutes
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Best Part: Repangaea - the unheard of 12 minute long song on a grindcore album - with saxophone!
Favorite Tracks: Ohrwurm, Dimensional Modulation Transmography, The Incorrigible Flame
Grade: 4.5
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Misled by Certainty in 20 words or less:
Rocky Mountain Hydro Grind is back, faster, heavier and more technical than ever.
The Band:
Cephalic Carnage is a five member grindcore outfit out of Colorado that fuse together a wide range of styles into their technically proficient grind style. In the past they would often use elements from many different genres, including funk, jazz, and even surf-rock to fit their specific needs from track to track. Cephalic Carnage are also known for their parodies of other genres, including metalcore and black metal, and given the nature of their lyrical content and themes, including conspiracies and consumption of ganja, the band has always had some comedic aspects to their records. Their more recent work is more progressive, experimental and technical, as they have always been.
Cephalic Carnage's other releases include: Conforming to Abnormality (1998), Exploiting Dysfunction (2000), Lucid Interval (2002), Anomalies (2005), and Xenosapien (2007)
Jay's Take on Misled by Certainty:
Cephalic Carnage has long been one of my favorite grindcore bands, simply because of the wide range of styles they've always sought to fuse into their music, whether for comedic relief or an abrupt, unexpected change in pace. Following-up from their previous record, Xenosapien released three years prior, Misled by Certainty continues where they left off with heavy, technical, in your face deathgrind. Grindcore is an abrasive genre in Metal's stable, it's loud, dissonant, fast and usually balls to walls insane - and Misled by Certainty certainly fits the bill for this. Lenzig Leal's vocals are deeper, and ghastlier than ever. Longtime guitarist Steve Goldberg's fretwork, along with rhythm guitarist Brian Hopp's is at its best and raise the technicality another notch. Nick Schendzielos provides that technical bass-line and great backing vocals. And longtime drummer John Merryman tears it up on the kit. Misled by Certainty has less comedic moments than on past records, and instead replaces it with more experimental elements - which works out quite well. But in typical grind fashion, they still keep those few 30 second, to one minute long tracks of pure speed and aggression.
Sample of the Day:
The official video for Ohrwurm is interesting to say the least - so I opted not to include it.
- J
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