Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Acme - To Reduce The Choir To One Soloist (1996)


Acme were the first band to apply a broad range of extreme metal genres to the hardcore scene. Their purest influences probably come from earlier hardcore bands like Rorschach, but these are hidden within a dense funeral fog of sludge, death, black metal and grindcore. Acme straddle it all without ever being confined to these genre limitations. Songs like ‘Attempt’ are the soundtrack to the end of the world itself; all-encompassing slabs of metal noise cascade into true majestic extremity. This is epic in a streamlined two-minute hardcore sense, not in a bloated, overindulgent metal sense. Acme lay waste to any of your pre-conceptions about the validity of the metal/hardcore crossover. People who like intense, dark, challenging, extreme music of any form should buy this yesterday.
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