Reminiscing about the early Napalm Death years? Well stop spinning that poor “Scum” album and listen to something more “contemporary”. Larvario has that same aggression, those same grinding screams and those chilling guitars that made Napalm the legend they are today.
This Peruvian band knew exactly how to capture the essence of grindcore with all their blastbeats, speed and bone breaking riffs. The songs are as expected, short, simple but brutal, some do carry a good death melody, like the well structure “Blonde Girls Stalker” a song that begins as a grindcore classic and evolves into a more death metal track, that manages to unite both elements perfectly as the song ends; examples like this repeat themselves through out the record, providing a rich source of tempo changes and entertainment passages that don’t allow the album to get too repetitive.
“Sendero” (track 5) shows that the classical brutal death approach is something Narkan can’t live without, from this point on the album begins to grow into a well coordinate blend of death/grindcore, including more complex song structures and “catchier” riffs.
The band choose track 7 as their intro, well at least that’s how they title the song, and is here were they let all their talent take you by surprise; a great song that carries within just a touch of thrash and a more “European” death style, with memorable riffs, solos and a solid drum performance, truly the song that shows you just how much these guys can play.
Larvario’s production is clear, everything can be heard, and it stays away from the Latin cliché of dirty sounding records that bet all in brutality and little in interesting riffs; this is truly a record for you to buy!
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