Hummingbird of Death is a critical fastcore band from Boise, Idaho. They have been around the scene for a while and continue to blast out the most pulverizing fastcore you have ever heard. In this recording, they do a radical job with giving some new stop-and-start powerviolence / grind blasts to aid in the totally fast breaks that they include!
Titanarum is also a totally killer band – these folks hail from California. They play(ed) some seriously radical punk hardcore / thrash. This is angry, raw, and fast – with combining some of the punkrock feel in a very unique and brutal way! This is their last recording, sadly!
REVIEW: HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH + TITANARUM 'SPLIT LP' (GIVE PRAISE)
ВідповістиВидалитиWow, sucks to be Titanarum. Poor guys, but someone had to be a band other than Hummingbird Of Death, and it's a little known truth that there are literally DOZENS of bands who aren't. In fact seeing as Boise, Idaho's much-loved Hummingbird Of Death open up their side of the split with an atypical grave-ploughing sludge dirge, there's no obvious reason why they couldn't do a split with themselves, maybe even a three or four-way split with themselves as they pummel out slight variations on their furious style.
Second track 'The World Needs This' is much closer to to their raucous brand of crossover-inspired fastcore, feeding neatly into the snarling buzzsaw riffs of Titanarum and their howling fit of punkish, grinding thrash - not so much the party, but the kids you didn't invite and turned up anyway to key your parents' car with their collars flicked up like tearaways in an '80s movie. You are SOOOOO grounded when mom and dad get home. This is actually their final release, a neatly packaged epitaph which makes all of that 'sucks to not be Hummingbird Of Death' stuff seem especially mean-spirited, so, erm, both bands are equally great, music is brilliant and whatever band/s the late, great Titanarum wind up in will be wonderful.
Especially if they cave in to popular demand and join Hummingbird Of Death.
http://www.extremeresponses.com/2011/08/review-hummingbird-of-death-titanarum.html