PARANOID 偏執症者 - Heavy Mental Fuck-Up! (LP) Black Vinyl

PARANOID (Sweden) 偏執症者 - Heavy Mental Fuck-Up! LP (2018) Black vinyl. PARANOID is a band you feel in your very core, a bludgeoning wall of sound. On Heavy Mental Fuck-Up!, the Swedish group continues to fuse D-beat’s intensity and Extreme Metal’s sinister darkness. Opener “Jikeidan” combines a pummeling beat with screaming dual harmony guitar leads. Musically, the band’s rampage borrows heavily from Japanese D-beat ragers like Disclose and Kriegshög.

The raw vocals bring to mind 1980's Extreme Metal groups like Venom and fellow Swedes, Celtic Frost. While the marriage of these styles isn’t anything new, PARANOID does an excellent job of carrying on this tradition while also sculpting their own identity. This album is far less chaotic than their immensely noisy debut Satyagraha, which won over many fans through sheer sensory overload.

Three years later, after releasing a plentiful array of smaller releases, the group has refined their assault to make a more conventional yet still devastating record. Many of the tracks—such as “Jikangire” and “Daigyakusatsu”—feel like a tidal wave crashing down, laying waste to all in its path.

PARANOID may be more refined than ever, but their music hasn’t gotten any less intense. Konton Crasher – KNTN-035L