(written by Islander)

Earlier today my friend and NCS comrade DGR made an observation about certain kinds of brutal death metal that coincidentally turns out to be quite relevant to the song from Australia’s Caution that we’re about to premiere.

In the context of reviewing an album by New York’s Thaetas, he pointed to “a weirdly ardent vein of avant-garde approach in many brutal death and yes, even slam bands,” music that turns out to be “very intricate for the sort of caveman facade it puts on,” with compositions that can spin themselves into a whirlwind — “balls of vitriol that shift constantly in mercurial form.”

Those observations seem germane to the Caution song “Eradication From the Taint” that you’re about to take in. That’s not to suggest that Caution and Thaetas are cut from the same cloth, but “Eradication From the Taint” does display a kind of musical wildness that contrasts with the primitive and utterly bludgeoning thuggishness it also inflicts. Continue reading »