They are not trying to reinvent themselves here, but rather sprinkle in tiny bits of genre-overlapping ideas like black metal-esque chord progressions (Reciprocal Repulsion) or hardcore-y breakdowns (Conspiracy of None). If you are familiar with MI's discography, you pretty much get what you expected going in. And while not exactly representative of the album's overall tone, it still serves to showcase the band's reinvigorated fierceness - a quality that I sorely missed on their two previous albums.Īs for the rest of the album, there is little point in dissecting every single song. Not since the days of their first full release, Retaliate, had I heard them be as aggressive and on point right out of the gate.
The opener's foreboding intro gives way to a melange of blastbeats, double bass and MI's signature open chord riffs. More than twenty years into their career, Misery Index return with a vengeance and make it a point to show the world that they still have what it takes to write crushing, ferocious deathgrind. On the bright side, all that building anger and frustration can yield quite productive results, as Complete Control, the band's latest offering, impressively demonstrates. It is easy to see how harrowing these past two years must have been for the Baltimore-based quartet. A live band in the truest sense of the term, they have never been known for their technical prowess or experimental songwriting, but rather for their stellar on-stage delivery. In some ways, Misery Index got hit harder by semi-recent global events than most of their peers. Review Summary: A path well-trodden makes the walk more pleasant.
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