Comprised of former members of infamous punk and metal pariahs Phobia and Mange, Destroyed in Seconds (DIS) proudly raise the insolent flag of Discharge and savagely cast aside the illusions upon which society has built its abattoir like machinations. With the full-throated fury of Swe-death infused punk they have wrought upon the blood-soaked ground their third LP
Divide and Devour. DIS's latest effort is the follow up to their 2012 LP
Becoming Wrath, and the interim eight years have been worth the wait. From its first strike to the skin of your eardrum, DIS burns a syphilitic streak through crossroads of your mind with Disfear guitar strikes, Dismember like grooves, and Tragedy embued white-phosphorus rage. The LP opens with the red-zoned chain-breaker "Divide and Devour" and slides into the organ juicing, human rind-peeling death-grind of "Sulfer," a two-pronged payload that proves
Divide and Devour to be more deadly than a California wildfire, and more potent than fracking gas in your well-water. It's a conflagration you'll find yourself cheering for even as it's flames lap at your eye-brows. Between the on and exit ramp of this album lies a scorched patch of salted earth inhabited by the blood-letting Discharge revival "Wraiths," as well as "No Respect" which gets in some Tragedy worship before ripping your hair out at its roots with a furious swipe of thrashy mad-dog circle-pit starting riffs, and "Buzzards," a suicidal dose of desert biker death-rock. Grindcore plays a not so surprising role in the makeup of
Divide and Devour's squalid palette, with the "The Badge" being one of the hottest tempered examples of the group's death-grind penchant. However, DIS can still press for land-speed records even when they are not assiduously slaving for the grind, like on the carpet-bombing extermination campaign "World War When," with its jagged saber-cut solos and trench tilling grooves. In 2020, we don't need more reminders that the system doesn't work for us. No, what we need now are calls to action for when the bastards try to divide us and take our bread. If their plan is to
Divide and Devour, then ours must be to make them choke.
Divide and Devour were self-released by DIS, you can get a copy through their Bandcamp
here.
