The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm and Necrophagist are a few of the obvious highlights from this year’s Summer Slaughter tour, but there are a bunch of other bands that are tearing faces and taking names as well, and one of the most lethal is Hobart, Tasmania’s Psycroptic.
The band plays extreme technical death metal that’s both intensely mathematical and absolutely captivating. With drums that pummel at, like, 8,000 BPM and guitars that shave flesh faster than a vegetable skinner, yet still leave something tangible in their slippery wake, Psycroptic could challenge Arsis and Meshuggah for the Nobel Noise Prize of Science. And they’re every big as brutal live, nailing each impossible rhythm shift and speed flurry with hunger and precision. Don’t believe us? Click “more” and check out Metal Injection’s excellent footage of “Isle of Disenchantment.”
