Supreme Pain - Cadaver Pleasures
(Album of the Week - April 27th to May 4th, 2008)
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Aad Kloosterwaard gets my adrenaline pumping like a defensive goal line stand to win a football game. Now, if that intro line seems like something a stalker would utter then you are mistaken. The reason is Kloosterwaard is the brawny brainy talent behind such killer bands as Sinister, Blastcorps, Infinited Hate, and Houwitser. Add the maniacs Erwin Harreman, Bas Brussaard, and Robert Kovacic from the bands Belphegor, Scaffold, and FondleCorpse to the fight, and guaranteed greatness embedded masterfully on CD is what listeners have with Supreme Pain.
What makes ‘Cadaver Pleasures’ awesome is that it is the embodiment of modern Death Metal in speedy brutality mixed with an old school atmosphere. Unreal-layered riffs flow in a pile of distortion off downtuned guitars. Riffage is ubiquitous like George W. Bush bullshit, but tangibly crushing in rumbling frequencies picked between tremolo and palm muted notes. Songs have variable tempos with choppy churning riffs staining the music. Abrupt breakdowns flow into more frightening riffs before slithering into a timely harmony lead or militant solo. Chromatic chord progressions give enough heaviness to the music that listeners will be lost in headbanging without realizing the bands seamless technicality. The effect from guitars on ‘Cadaver Pleasures’ is a fast style of performance that matches any of the music played by Supreme Pain’s modern Death Metal contemporaries, but chromatic passages and tremolo sequences charge a malevolent old school formula into the music that many 21st century bands lack.
Vocals are hairy lower intestine grunts that only a grizzly bear could imitate. Kloosterwaard must have been gargling warm whiskey; cause the singing adds another dimension of uber meatiness to an already belligerently pummeling CD. Bass is heavier than a cotton beach towel soaked in raw sewage. Every second of ‘Cadaver Pleasures’ has a perfect balance of 4-strings in the mix providing harmonic and rhythmic foundation while steamrolling listeners in a blitz of lower frequencies. Drums are almost unspeakably savage. Hearing the kit molested between monster fills ‘n’ rolls, reverberant double bass, and bestial cymbal bashing is like participating in a homicide. Yet, what makes the play of the kit impeccable is a sense of melody that carries songs during solos or fast parts. Awesome too are creative rolling sequences between foot and handwork that reflect guitars. A perfect example of this is the guitars squealing pinch harmonics matched by the lumbering kit play found on “Visions of Tyranny.”
Reaching back to them old school days is the album cover adorning ‘Cadaver Pleasures.’ Sure, it is a bit cheesy, but it evokes the stylistic fervor of slashing horror and gloom found on the album artwork of ‘Mental Funeral’ by Autopsy, or ‘Scream Bloody Gore’ by Death. The rest of the booklet has images of the leather jacket clad band standing in the type of imposing posturing that is a hallmark of Death Metal. Musically, the production is impeccable and stalwart. The result is Supreme Pain sounding lucidly intimidating like a giant tornado rumbling the brains of listeners in a scrambling paradoxical cacophony of harmonious unrepressed Death Metal played near perfectly… Fans, you want this album. Do not even think twice when you can just fucking BUY!
By Mike Lidia
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Aad Kloosterwaard – Vocals
Erwin Harreman – Guitar, Bass
Bas Brussaard – Guitar
Robert Kovacic – Drums
Rating: 9.0
Record Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: 2008
Song List:
1. Blood of the Chosen
2. Drowned in Hate
3. Souleater
4. Cadaver Pleasures
5. Room of Stench
6. Flesh Collector
7. Lifeless Skin and Bones
8. Visions of Tyranny
Band Website: Supreme Pain
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