GRIDLINK Longhena LP BLACK VINYL Discordance Axis Hayaino Daisuki Mortalized NEW

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GRIDLINK Longhena LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Back in stock, available on both CD (in a six-panel digisleeve package) and on limited edition vinyl. Longhena is the third and unfortunately final album from grindcore powerhouse Gridlink, the band formed by Discordance Axis frontman Jon Chang and riff-tornado Takafumi Matsubara (also of Chang's other band Hayaino Daisuki, Japanese grinders Mortalized, and harsh electronics outfit Guilty Connector); over the course of three albums, Gridlink has constructed some of the most complex and astounding grindcore of the past decade, continuing to pursue the extreme nerve conduction studies of Chang's previous band while fusing that rabid blast attack to a heavier tech-metal chassis.
    Twice as long as the band's previous releases at a whopping twenty three minutes, Longhena opens with a flurry of staccato guitar jangle, a bright crackling melody that suddenly surges into the band's trademark hyper-fast velocity, Chang's throat-peeling screams soaring over that brilliant conflux of jangly melody and vicious discordant grindcore erupting from out of the opener "Constant Autumn", which suddenly dissipates into the sound of a weeping violin at the very end. From there, the album hurtles pell-mell though thirteen more songs of this precision blast violence, epic metal hooks suddenly ripping through the clanking dissonance and monstrous blasting, those haunting violins eventually reappearing alongside some sweetly glistening synthesizer tones and washes of pastoral ambience, moments of gleaming dawn-lit beauty that rise at the opening of tracks like "Thirst Watcher", passages of stirring orchestral drama and atmospheric shadow that takes over the whole song, turning into a gorgeous piece of atmospheric chamber-prog. But that's surrounded by some insanely vicious and abrasive metallic grind, songs splattering apart into soaring harmonies over supersonic blastbeat meltdowns, the riffs spiking through the band's intricate arrangements smashed down into a two minute cyclonic blast. That contrast between the ambient sections of the album and the ultra-violent grind might make this the most emotionally complex grindcore album I've heard. Chang hasn't lightened up his scathing vocal assault one iota, though, still sounding like an electrocuted baboon spewing out a cyberpunk word salad that reads like fragments of a particularly poetic Siratori text, but the moments of clarity and beauty that emerge from amid the band's supersonic blast attack brings several new layers of feeling to the music. At it's most vicious, though, Longhena is certainly pulverizing stuff, blending in riffs and hooks into their screeching grind that seem to be equally influenced by both anthemic 1980's heavy metal and the symphonic bombast of 16-bit video games; you can go straight to the closing song "Look To Windward" for one of the nastiest amalgams of Maidenesque metalshred and PCP-fueled prog-grind you're likely to hear all year. Total goddamn terror.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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