{"id":2563,"date":"2020-09-24T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2020-11-25T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:06:56","slug":"duma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Duma"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duma\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Duma<\/em> LP
\nNyege Nyege Tapes, 2020<\/p>\n

There’s\u00a0grindcore in Kenya? My ignorance of that fact, which honestly shouldn’t be all that terribly surprising given the reach of extreme metal throughout the world,\u00a0admittedly\u00a0piqued my interest in this group.\u00a0The stunningly brilliant cover image definitely set up some pre-conceived expectations of gnarly metallic hyper chug and gore-centric themes,\u00a0standard fare for the grindcore genre, but I’m thrilled to report that this not only blasts itself well outside any genre constraints, it’s easily one of the most original forays into extreme music\u00a0these tinnitus-tainted ears have heard in a long time. This guitar-free grind is rooted in dense, polyrhythmic percussive blasts peppered by washes of noise that make this monster feel more like something\u00a0from your record store’s industrial\/experimental\/noise\u00a0section than the metal bins. In fact, other than the pulse-shredding percussive blasts, the only other recognizable hallmark of grindcore here\u00a0are\u00a0visceral\u00a0vocal growls\u00a0and wails, which thankfully\u00a0veer well past cartoonish\u00a0into crazed. Take some harsh power electronics, mash it up with chopped up gabber beats and bits of William Bennet’s post-Whitehouse project Cut Hands and you’ve got something nearly as\u00a0terrifying\u00a0as this monster.<\/p>\n