Want to hear some new heavy gut wrenching death metal? Then maybe the aptly named album; ‘The Daily Grind’ from the young German band, Anima, may suit your needs. After gigging for several years and the recording of some demo tracks, Metal Blade Records picked up the young band, culminating in the release of this full-length album.
The album is very reminiscent of current metal favourites Job For A Cowboy, hinted with elements of Black Dahlia Murder, thrown in for good measure. The tracks are brutal and whilst not being as technical as someone like All Shall Perish, still deliver a punch. The riffs tend to be slightly geared towards a more metalcore-esq styling as opposed to full on death grind, with the deep rasping vocals giving a brutal edge that gives a harder heard to the sound.
There are some great swirling, winding, reverb drenched guitar solos on the album starting with the very BDM styled effort on the opening track ‘Behind The Mask’. Overall this album has a lot of likeable features and doesn’t seem to falter on many elements. If this album was listened to completely independent of any referential influence then it’d be a pretty storming album, but unfortunately taking a comparative view, I can say that there are many bands that I would listen to before Anima and even more trying to do the same sort of thing, that I haven't heard of and do not really want to.
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