The outlandishly prolific Grecian act Dodsferd pillages again with their latest rusty-bladed weapon of misanthropic soul degradation, The Parasitic Survival of the Human Race. This new thirty-minute stain on music’s unfolding history reimagines blackened punk as a dirty engine that only runs on rank piss and rot-liquified flesh. Mob-centered mayhem seems to be the wick around which this hate-flame burns, since the tracks are bookended by wordless crowd chaos punctuated by deep bomb explosions and shattering glass. Each of the four main songs occupies between six-and-a-half and eight minutes, making for a very consistent (though at times tiring) listen. A cover of the Misfits’ 1979 song “We Are 138” just barely bumps this effort over the half-hour mark. For a full-length, this set is pretty brief, but that’s hardly a valid complaint when 2013 saw Dodsferd release two splits, an EP, and a whole other full-length record.
- MetalSucks