Friendship are a band from Japan and on this recording expands on their mixture of grindcore, power violence, sludge and doom metal by adding in a touch of black metal and this is a review of their 2019 album "Undercurrent" which was released on vinyl by Southern Lord Records.
A very distorted sounding intro starts off the album before going into more of a heavier musical direction. Elements of power violence can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording while the faster sections of the music bring in a great amount of grindcore influences and blast beats.
Vocals are mostly aggressive growls influenced by both death metal and hardcore along with all of the musical instruments having a very powerful sound to them. Elements of doom and sludge metal are also added into the slower sections of the songs and the songs also bring in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Most of the tracks are very short in length as well as a small amount of melody being added into some of the riffing and as the album progresses a small amount of black metal influences can be heard and the music always sticks to a heavier direction. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover violent, hateful and angry themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Friendship and if you are a fan of grindcore, power violence, sludge and doom metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Vertigo" "Abandon" "Garbage" and "Hatred". 8 out of 10.
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