TITANARUM - Spastis Progressivus Aggressiorum 7"

I stumbled over this little spinner while checking the Per Koro Mailorder lateley and was drawn to because it was stated that Kenny Leek of The Neighbors is their vocalist.It did cost 2,50 € so what are you waiting for?

Due to my subjective (how else) opinion that The Neighbors were a suberb band I had to check out this band immediatly.

Kenny really follows the "scream your guts out and your head off" formula again here and leaves no prisoners concerning the health of his vocal chords.Absolutly brilliant work here again.The bitterness,negative outlook on life and the feeling of still being out of step with the world really shines through his lyrics and vocal deliverance.Intense!

I don't know,somehow his desperation gets to me when he screams his mind.It's hard to say or to describe how you are affected by something.Listen for yourself,I can't really put it into the exact words.

The musical side of Titanarum is a little bit slower and "progressive" compared to The Neighbors incorporating some sort of Accused/Tankard-like trash/crossover/metal influences.Especially the guitar work is extraordinary with some more complicated to play melodies,breaks or chord structures including a lot of off beat tempos/changes.

The first song "Aging Quickly" musically is a little different to the ones following because its fast from beginning to end a.k.a. just great.The lyrics to this song are awesome too describing getting older with age but still wanting to kill it musically and the feeling the urge to play fast.

Compared to this song the tempo unfortunaly settles in lower regions in the rest of the songs only sometimes changing into fast gear again.Here the earlierer mentioned progressive part with more of a mid tempo approach takes effect.Don't get me wrong,the songs are still great and some parts even pretty fast.But its not the "full blast till you drop" way like with The Neighbors.Did I mention this band enough now?Can't be!

"Your death,my living" talks about how Kenny earns his living as a coroner."You die,I clean you up and so earn my money to live" could be the motto here.The lyrics are pretty sarcastic and should be taken with a lot of black humor.

Another song ("Muckhead") is a comment on how everyone around Kenny seems to get older,breeds kids (even the wives are thanked for letting the band exist-old guys at work here...),marries,has kids while he is still left alone with only himself to hate.

The 7" was self released by the band in 2008.Like Unbroken,Find Him And Kill Him,The Neighbors (ha!) or Battalions of Saints for some more classic stuff their homebase is San Diego,USA.On their homepage they state that a split LP with Hummingbird of Death is currently in the works.Whoa!

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