You want brutal? You got it! The debut album from Yautja (members of Thou, Coliseum, Mutilation Rites), The Lurch (Relapse Records), is that in spades. If you’re into just an all out onslaught of driving grooves mixed with crazy, double stops, and all the above, this is the cut for you! Not to get too into it, but this is right up my alley. I dig it when a band is their own thing, or their own entity, so to speak. They are just themselves. 

Unique is a word we don’t appreciate very much anymore, but this album got me in the feels man! I don’t mean to come off as a fan boy because I literally just heard of Yautja. Thanks to my boy Keefy, but I really dig this cut! Everything moves together as one animal. I love the approach and if given the chance, I would ask them how much material came out of free jamming, then chopping that up, and farming that material out. 

As a musician, you can just imagine the process. A band just doing what they do. It’s plain and simple. Let’s jam, don’t think, and just play. Letting the ideas just flow, the songs almost seemed to have written themselves. And we can all dig that! 

Purchase The Lurch by Yautja here: https://yautja.bandcamp.com/

8 / 10 

TORBJORN SOLGARD