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After terrorizing the underground for well over a decade, Germany's YACOPSAE has finally released their Stateside debut! Blasting away with their fierce brand of hyperactive turbo speed thrash, this trio unites the sounds of the many Axis powers of extreme music. From punk and hardcore to grind and noise, these thrashers go ballistic on 37 devastating anthems of whirlwind blendercore. And not a single song clocks in over a minute, so you know you'll dig this one already! Firmly established as the kings of the Euro noisecore scene, YACOPSAE are now poised to infect the rest of the planet with their unrelenting, hi-octane aural assault. This is really good cd, buy it.

Not a song over a minute, this album is an amazing display of control and speed. And the art work isn't as na-a-a-sty as some previous releases. Only one decapitation. But yeah, it rocks, and if you like FAST and ANGRY music with excellent production, you should buy this. Really, they stop on a dime.

First of all, I'd like to objectify the content of this recording.

-There are 37 songs
-None of them reach a minute in length
-6 of the songs are at most 19 seconds long
-21 of the songs are in the range of 20 - 39 seconds
-10 of the songs range from 40 seconds - 56 seconds (which is the longest song)
-The entire album is a little over 20 minutes long. Twenty as in "Andrew Jackson." That is not a typo.

-"Every song sounds the same." - Everyone has heard this old adage when referring to music. This is not the same as 'every song is identical', however, there are very few obvious differences between any of the songs. No one can deny this, not even the hardcore Yacoepsae fans, don't even try.

-At least 90% of the album is high-octane, play-as-loud-and-as-fast-as-you-can, scream-all-the-time mind-crushing music with sparse random parts of "something else." On "iltifatlar" (song 20), there is Middle Eastern music with a Middle Eastern man saying something. There are many blast beats, a good amount of riffs, a couple things that could be interpreted as guitar solos, some avante-garde sound samples(like on "iltifatlar"), but not much else.

The genre you would incorporate this into is "skater punk," think of an extremely heavy version of The Ramones, emphasis on 'extreme', (maybe a little more angry too).

-When a song starts or stops, it doesn't taper (smooth intro or outro), it just gives you the full blast right away, vocals and all.

-He screams a lot.

I believe Amazon has the sound samples for you to listen to. You should take advantage of that, very few people would appreciate this kind of music.

I enjoy it. I had to warm up to it at first simply because it is kinda skater punk in nature.

I give this 4 - 4.5 stars, simply because they could have done a better job, expanded their horizons, and not use the same old Black Sabbath riffs that every metal band has been using for the past 30 years.