This is the second album from US grindcore band Organ Dealer.
It’s been a very long time since Organ Dealer’s 2015 debut album Visceral Infection, but the quality of that release has stuck with me. So, when The Weight of Being appeared, I was ready for it.
The Weight of Being boasts nine tracks more than its predecessor’s twelve, yet at 23 minutes in duration is only about a minute and a half longer. This should let you know that Organ Dealer’s grind is uncompromising and nastily aggressive. Couple this with the promo blurb’s recommendations of this being for fans of Nasum, Napalm Death, Wormrot, and Nails, and you should have a good idea of what you’re in for should you press pay on Organ Dealer’s explosive package of vicious grindcore.
Yep, this is damn good stuff, and it’s great to have Organ Dealer back and destroying the opposition with savage glee. Their ferocious deathgrind is devastatingly effective. It combines blast beat mayhem with punkier riffs and death metal muscle. It’s unrelentingly merciless, but is well-written so that it’s not as one-dimensional as some grind can be. Within their stylistic framework the band vary their assault through a range of punishing paces, riffs, and modes of musical assault, resulting in an album that might fly by at a million miles per hour, but is worth every second of the experience.
Rounded out by guests from Sunrot, Birdflesh, Exhumed, and Noisem, Organ Dealer have created a superior grindcore release. The Weight of Being is great fun, and hideously effective at what it does.
Sadly, as I’ve opined previously, I don’t get to review much grindcore. Either there’s not much out there any more, or there is and I just don’t encounter it, but either way, when I get my grubby mitts on something as virulently infectious as The Weight of Being, then it’s a very good day. Organ Dealer have unleashed a monstrous album of satisfying and enjoyable grindcore carnage. Don’t miss out on this.
Very highly recommended.
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