What early Devo and The B-52's did for new wave music;
Kunvuk has done for the Technical Thrash genre, in spades. They bring an innovative style, which drives forth like a whirlwind of wackiness, and revolves around a humorous theme of human mockery. Based in Sydney, this Aussie quartet have replaced Phil Anonymous on the drum position, with Trina Tuffy for dramatic results. Not only is she a terrific drummer, but her back up vocals give the choruses an uplifting sound like those from The Go-Go's or The B-52's.
The first disc is called Immute, which a dictionary defines as unchangeable.
That's an ironic name for a disc with so many odd time changes and crossovers into an eclectic array of dissimilar influences. Immute takes more unexpected twists and turns than carnival fun houses do. The thrash riffs are played fast with carpal tunnel inducing intricacy. They draw from influences like
Overkill,
Pantera, and even
White Zombie. But there are also influences from older rock music of the 1960's or 1970's.
Their brand of thrash doesn't have a "
Kill 'em All" attitude. It carries itself with a posture of demented goofiness, which parallels the
Megadeth song, Symphony Of
Destruction. It's funny like Weird Al Yankovich, but much weirder than he is. Immute is much more than just a thrash album, the key word here is groove. They mix it up with with strange jazz music, which sounds like Frank Zappa. Occasionally they throw in some 1960's style blues or 1970's funk style guitar picking.
Disc 2 is called Jackals and consists of 5 psyche ward anthems. 3 of which are re-recordings of the songs from their 2008 demo. They also do a good job of mixing up the influences on this album, which range from the 1970's to the 2000's, and come about with whimsical crossovers. The songs are structured to fuck with your head, under the pretense that the performers are fucked in the head.
Case in point, In The Anticipation Of
Doom, which is arguably the best song from either disc. It starts with a
Tommy Bolin sound, crosses into a goofy bass rhythm with cheesy vocals like
Serj Tankian of
System Of A Down, crashes into some
Metallica styled thrashing, moves into some
Static-X groove hooks, and repeats this cycle about 3 times. It gets better and better on each round.
The vocals on some of these songs, resemble mental patients who have run out of their medication. They yell and bitch frantically about their frustrations in life. This recalls some of the madness on the album, The Wall, by Pink Floyd.
There is always something unusual with
Kunvuk. This debut album is a 2 disc set, instead of just 1 disc. It comes in a DVD sized package, instead of a CD sized package. They demand your undivided attention. Every 2 minutes there is a strange sound effect, note change up, or crazy voice to keep you listening.
Kunvuk never cease to amuse me within these 90 minutes of fun follies. But they still afford the listener more whiplash thrash rides than most crash test dummies get in a days work. 2 years of hard work are brilliantly reflected in this technical thrashterpiece.
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