Dutch three-piece Blunt Knife Idol (bassist / vocalist / founding member Herrie, guitarist / music- & lyric-writer Arco, and drummer Tony) release their debut (?) via their own label Herrie Records (and herrie means something like noise or uproar or tumult), being a collection of twenty five pisses, sorry, pieces of old schooled Death / Grind. It was recorded at the Smallroom Studio and mixed and mastered at Episonic Sound, and it has a total running time of thirty seven minutes.
What Blunt Knife Idol bring is an old styled form of so-called Grindeath material, Grinding Death Metal from the Old School or deadly Grindcore from back then, à la the late Eighties / mid-Nineties, yet with a better sound. And when coming back to this latter element: the production indeed is much better, but of course it has to do with the new century we did enter a while ago. But don’t you worry, for the sound quality is not too polished or too clinically clean; it’s just less primitive, let’s say, than the production quality from three decades ago. But there is no need to complain…
Music-wise I do not think it is an understatement to have this material compared to the likes of Terrorizer, Cretin, Exhumed, Nasum, mid-era Napalm Death, Repulsion, later Impetigo, Ingrowing or Lock-up, amongst several others. Maybe the focus lies more on a Death Metal approach than a Punk one, and the whole might not be that ugly-headed grinding (the tempo too, as well as the vocals and many riffs, are rather metalized than grinding!), and one cannot ignore the Groove-Death-laden approach either, and therefore I think this act isn’t just a Grind-combo, yet rather a Grindeath-oriented entity. But in any case, this stuff is quite cool, cf. the cover song of, for example, Napalm Death’s Suffer The Children. And that’s why I refer to these bands especially, rather than any deadly Grind-oriented one; yeah, it’s the details that make the difference…