Written by Louis Pelingen
Right from the jump, Shockpoint breaks things apart like a Titan pummeling its way through with its heavy fists. They demonstrate their handle on Metallic Hardcore on their 3 track demo last year, equipping themselves with all forms of rage that they can muster; shredding everything apart as the drums crumble, guitars seethe, and vocals thrashing amongst the decaying, fatalist destruction around them. If this is how much they can crush things down just based on their demo, what awaits their path in their future will be dealt with with more bulk in their core.
In ‘New creature is born…’, the track immerses itself into what Shockpoint is heading into with this EP; the vocal sample narrating the crudeness that awaits them as they trod along with riffs sparking and grinding with the drum beating sparingly alongside it. In short, this EP throttles itself even further in chewing away the scums of the Earth, using fierce guitar riffings, rumbling drum beats, and anguished vocals to Shockpoint’s advantage.
Within 15 minutes of its time, the band charges onward with no consideration for respite or cool down as they willingly brute their targets down with their violent ferocity; intensifying even further as they go deeper, humanity’s cruelty exposing itself at every turn. ‘Annihilating Your Dogma’ is essentially a takedown for pro-life mentality, the chugging guitar riffs and driving drums allow the shrieking anger of the vocals to break apart the individuals within that putrid mentality. ‘Fatal Impulse’ is based upon a video showing an interrogation of a rapist and the stabbing that comes afterward, a disturbance that makes its way to its violent imagery of the lyrics as the overall track stings thanks to its rapid guitar shredding, pulsating drum patterns, and howling vocals.
Tracks like ‘Parasaethesia’, ‘Rhythm Zero’, and ‘Software Gore’ revolve around the performance art itself. ‘Parasaethesia’ takes to a slower yet noisier soundscape as the guitars get noisier and the drums get sharper. ‘Rhythm Zero’ cuts through religious pleas as the vocals are at their most unburdened and ravenous, accompanied by rapid-fire drum breakdowns and guitar ravishings.
While the EP and its cavernous crushing atmosphere come in and out from time to time, “Rhythm Zero” mostly holds up due to its consistent takedowns of the caustic mentalities that surround in the most open and in the most subtle of places. It manages to not exhaust its formidable energy but to let that rage simmer and break apart the cruelty that wraps everything and everyone in its wake.
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