Robotosaurus
Manhater
Skull And Bones Records/Stomp Entertainment
Quality release from the city of Churches
With a line-up that comprises of current/former members of acts such as Equal Minded (Vocalist Isaac 'Izzy' Rayson), Meat Wallet (Guitarist Alex Fimeri), This City Dynamite!!! (Guitarist David Healy), Love Like...Electrocution (Bassist Mark Webster) and The Rivalry (Drummer Adam Myers), it's a sure bet that Adelaide (South Australia) based act Robotosaurus is not going to be a comfortable listen. And sure enough, the band's debut full-length offering "Manhater" lives up to expectations.
Picking up from where the band left off with their pair of E.P. releases back in 2007 ("Sayra Bahk Vol 1 : The Last Refuge Of The Exiled Man" and "Sayra Bahk Vol 2 : Trifornais", both of which were released through Yellow Ghost Records), "Manhater" is an album full of the technical precision found within early The Dillinger Escape Plan, but served up in the brutal fashion commonly associated with Converge releases. From the doom inspired build up of the opening track "Muddy Water Is Muddy Water", right through to the chaotic constant shifts within the closing track "Mankind", Robotosaurus offer little in the way of a breather throughout the twenty-six minute offering. Instead, the band chooses to continually bludgeon the listener's ears with their particular brand of scathing hardcore.
Highlights worthy of a mention include the fast and savage bite of "Party Sick", the engrossing rolling riff within "Black Hate Devils", the bass heavy led "Black Eyes", the angular "Desperate Love" and the oddly catchy "Double-Edged Sword".
Metallic hardcore is one of those particular styles of music that is either done really well, or incredibly bad. Suffice to say that Robotosaurus has managed to pull off the metallic hardcore sound quite well in the past, and once again achieved great results with their release of "Manhater".
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