Shatter Brain – The Shatter Brain Demo review

Built from the graven ashes from a few of South Australia's premiere metal bands, Shatter Brain has released a four track demo demonstrating their ability to tear shreds from your flesh. Shatter Brain takes its influences from so many areas that they don't sound like any one thing in particular, in fact they are carving their own path through the crushing landscape; painting pictures of the insane.

For a demo this is a really high quality recording, it was recorded and mixed by the bands guitarist Jack Hartley then mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust, Cavalera Conspiracy, Powertrip) so it has a strong pedigree from the get go. This is very exciting, a demo this hefty really beggars belief. What are their future albums going to be like?

I'm sitting here listening to this demo on bandcamp trying to type and listen at the same time... it's very hard, all I want to do is jump around, flip the coffee table, and kick over the lounge. I guess you could call this music new hardcore? Regardless it's a smorgasbord of extreme sound. The vocals are diverse and range from piercing highs to crushing gutteral filth. The guitars are absolutely crushing, but at the same time melodic and soulful, and the solos are masterful with just the right amount of claw raising bad assery. The drums are definitely something to behold, they are huge, diverse and range from extreme blast beats, to slow doomy chops and everything in between. All in all the musicianship displayed by Shatter Brain on this demo is absolutely amazing and as I mentioned earlier if this is what the demo sounds like... how the fuck will the world fathom an entire LP, it's a pretty exciting thought!

This is what metal should sound like, passion, aggression and soul, this demo has all of those things in spades. Shatter Brain have started like a bullet from a gun and if that is any indication of what the future holds this band is going to be absolutely huge. The four tracks contained on this demo is some of the best metal Australia has to offer, the pure crushing aggression contained within its walls is nothing short of apocalyptic and should be recognised as so. Shatter Brain are going to quickly become one of the biggest metal acts in Australia, of that I am certain.

Pros:

• Crushing, aggressive and melodic
• Musicianship is perfect
• The recording is flawless

Cons:

• It's only a 4 track demo

Track List:

1. Dog's Water
2. Rip the Stitch
3. Invisible War
4. Discard

Line-up:
Ryan Quarrington - Drums
Jack Hartley - Guitar
Tom Santamaria - Vocals
Pat Callaghan - Bass
Matt Disisto - Guitar

Genre: New Hardcore / Death Metal

Release Date: 16-1-18

Links:
https://www.shatterbrainmetal.com
https://shatterbrainmetal.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/shatterbrainmetal
https://twitter.com/shatterbrainaus
https://www.instagram.com/shatterbrainmetal
https://soundcloud.com/shatterbrainmetal