### Trigger The Bloodshed: The great depression

#### 05/05/09 || GardensTale

I’m sure there are people who think Trigger the Bloodshed are the best thing since sliced bread. I’m sure they are metal as fuck, like to bash things up (preferably women, Christians or each other), drink a lot of beer and have hair like a caveman. I’m sure that if they already heard and enjoyed this album before reading this review, they will curse me and call me a fucking pussy who can’t take the BRVTAL. I’m also sure they don’t listen to the music for the music but because they need something to drink beer to, bash shit up to and bang their caveman heads to, because this shit is fucking boring in every other aspect.

Metal Archives describes Trigger the Bloodshed as technical brutal death metal. To be honest, it’s not all that technical, and there’s some deathcore in there, but at least they got the brutal part right. Oh yes, TtB are plenty brutal. If you desperately need to punch the hell out of something or someone, this is pretty good stuff to do it to. And then, after a good bunch of punching, you figure you must be halfway through the album, only to find out you’ve only had two songs. They’re just so fucking tedious it slows time.

Nearly every song sounds the same. The first three songs could have been mashed on one track and I couldn’t tell the difference. Then, “The scouring impurity” only stands out because it starts off a bit slower. That’s the only fucking difference. And that’s how it goes throughout the album. Look guys, if you want to make an album long song, listen to Edge of Sanity’s “Crimson” albums so you’re shown how it’s done, alright?

The band’s sound is, well, very basic. Guttural growl gone unintelligible, fast distorted guitarwork without much aim to it, fast drumming that now and then spasms out or ventures into random tom-hitting (I guess that’s supposed to be their technical side, well, whoopdee-fucking-doo) and inaudible bass. The production is pretty good and every now and then a nice riff pops up and “Dessicate earth” surprises with an actual guitar solo (which spasms out into random string noodling, but nice try!) but if you haven’t tossed out this disc in the first 10 minutes due to the terrible monotony, you probably belong to the category of listeners described above, or you’re too busy with some vaginal annihilation of a chick.

In short, “The great depression” consists of very little more than random rampaging with no structure, direction or anything else that makes it truly interesting, and in the oversaturated death metal corner that’s absolutely fatal for any band, and this is a relatively new one. Sorry fuckers; you’ll need to do much better to impress in any way. You sure don’t now.

4 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2009
- Label: Metal Blade Records
- Website: Trigger The Bloodshed MySpace
- Band
- Jonny Burgan: vocals
- Rob Purnell: lead guitar
- Martyn Evans: guitar
- Max Blunos: drums
- Dave Purnell: bass

- Tracklist
- 01. The great depression
- 02. Warbound
- 03. Sanctuary of the wretched
- 04. The scourging impurity
- 05. The dead world
- 06. Interlude – I
- 07. Contemporary perception narcotics
- 08. Dessicate earth
- 09. The infliction of tophet
- 10. Disfigured anonimity
- 11. Terminus