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MUTANGENT: Final Fester

Put quite simply Mutangent, shred. With a grateful nod to the Final Fantasy series and graphic novels Mutangent are epic and cinematic in their ability to craft solid Kiwi metal without pomp or cheese. A sweeping film score opens business but here is the only place that pace takes a backseat to atmosphere. Frenetic BPMs are coupled with the workhorse riff style of Meshuggah to ensure that the imagination of the listener does not completely run away with them. At times jazzy and looping in a Dillinger Escape Plan motif then interspersed with diving, screaming breakdowns, there is somehow a groove-laden funk delicately laced throughout the album. This primordial funk is witnessed in Rocket Pig, vocalised by Laughton Kora, upbeat and bouncing while elsewhere on ‘Final Fester’ dual vocalists are content at times to let master guitar man The Deathness build and demolish scenes of burning fret board oblivion. Lyrically, over the scorching compositions, all the good stuff is covered such as the welcome of armageddon, contempt for the bland sheep of society and pure piss and ire for the Fuck Head Syndrome sufferers. An excellent blistering, bubbling creation of ethics and metal.

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