ACxDC â G.O.A.T. Review
By Dear Hollow
If you donât know ACxDC, then what are you doing with your life? Like listening to actually good metal? Too bad for your sorry ass. The LA natives are back in black for their own highway to hell, and itâs too good to be true. For the woefully uninformed and uncultured, donât even think alternate or direct current and Brian Johnson, you swine. Itâs Antichrist Demoncore, and the peanut butter cup moniker of divine apathy is so sweet and gummy. ACxDCâs EP The Second Coming was introduced when I first got to college, and if Iâd had my way, debut full-length Antichrist Demoncore would have been blaring when I graduated. Well, maybe not, because theyâre really fuckinâ obnoxious.
Now, I know Iâm supposed to be the knower of all things and genres, but ACxDC was my first powerviolence experience, and only later did I delve into the grind-adjacent beatdowns of Weekend Nachos, Nails, or Mammoth Grinder.1 Only when the inimitable Dolphin Whisperer crooned sweetly, explaining that powerviolence is actually grindcoreâs degenerate and inbred little cousin did I understand that powerviolence is actually fundamentally better. Just as its two full-lengths, bevy of splits and EPs since 2003 suggest, ACxDC is about as meatheaded and tempo-abusing as they come, with hints of thrash, groove, and crust, with a forked tongue implanted heavily in cheek. Itâs fun. Itâs obnoxious.
Oh look, youâre still here. ACxDC tears you a new one across twenty-four minutes and seventeen tracks of insanity hastily garbed in Satanic gym clothes for the second coming of the hot new PE teacher.2 The riffs get hot and heavy fast, with tracks like âBoxed In,â âGreatest of All Time,â âDefinition of Insanity,â and âThot Policeâ dragging their crusty balls across unassuming listenersâ ears, while the relentless blastbeats and grindy sanders of âWanna See a Dead Body?,â âFlying Pigs,â and âVested Interestâ are sure to warrant some facial reconstructions. Vocals are all over the place, shrieks and growls taking the piss, as tracks like âFairweather,â âClout Chaser,â and âGoatcoreâ take a bite straight outta that death metal buttcheek. The abilities of the guitars to shift from crusty hardcore a la Amebix to the thick slogs of Entombed A.D., and the manic attack of the drums and its formidable tone? Boy howdy.
Now, the chugs are a different story. And by a different story, I mean we go from Eclipse to Breaking Dawn, okay? I guess the chugs and stank make powerviolence not grindcore but I ainât a gatekeeper â hell, I donât even know anyone who keeps gates (what is that, for pets?). If youâre like, âoh Dear Hollow talks about the shit he doesnât like in this section,â think again, bitch. The chugs of ACxDC are trying to be your friend, with tracks like âKaroshi,â âAt Midnightâ and âCloud Chaserâ clawing their way into your pants once and for all. Cuts like âFairweather,â âThot Police,â and âExpiredâ are necessary listening if you like music, but otherwise the rest of G.O.A.T. is the most obnoxious din ever, guaranteed to get your parents calling the pastor while clutching pearls and a copy of the ESV New Testament. Because thatâs how ACxDC do.
I have a method (for once) for grading ACxDC. I take how many stank faces have I made through the course of this album, then take that number and divide it by, like, twelve or maybe eight. Whatever. Then I add a solid sixty-nine, then take the integral of that shit.3 My point is that I made a lotta stank faces with G.O.A.T. and I perturbed a lot of student work by blasting this in class. Itâs ACxDC for the true G.O.A.T., IYKYK.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 4 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Prosthetic Records
Websites: acxdc.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/ACxDC
Releases Worldwide: April 26th, 2024
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