Lifeless - Full Chill
If you were hoping that your first musical purchase of 2010 was something of a darker, aggressive and unfathomable nature, then look no further than the thrash band Lifeless and their debut mini album ‘Full Chill’; which documents the first seven tracks the band wrote together.
‘The Ripper’ is a mad banging of drums and extremely strong guitar bass lines with some fella screeching words that have no consistency or even basic melody buried beneath the humming of noise. The record's title track a slight, very slight, improvement over the first. There seems to be some basic sense to the vocals. They are still shouted or rather quickly spoken in a louder and more forceful nature into a microphone. Musically there are some electric guitars making their presence with sharp riffs. It is logical to believe that some could desire the music in itself, but the vocals are far from anything you could call musically driven and are the drowning point on this song.
‘Night Of The Living Shred’ and ‘Party For Your Right To Fight’ are both two-minute (or so) rumbles of drums, rough riffs and quickly spoken vocals, which are an improvement over the first attempts; words can actually be detected over the music rather than buried six feet under and there is a tint of vocal harmonies trying to break through to some degree. ‘Lifeless’ is certainly not that as there is plenty of movement in this song, the guitars seem to have more life in them. As the two tracks leading out ‘Hellride’ and ‘Deathrow’ hit you, there are harmonies, if they can be called that, making a presence but nothing much else to take note of.
‘Full Chill’ may be recorded live and the reasons for the migraine that could be settling in, but thrash is a hard style of music to listen to. With just seven songs, this is certainly enough for now.