Fuck the Facts- Desire Will Rot (2015)

Fuck the Facts- Desire Will Rot (2015)

“You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.”

Phil Anselmo

By: Ghost Writer

I have heard the future of extreme metal and it's called Fuck the Facts, little by little Canada is becoming a very strong reference in extreme music, ranging from thrash through sophisticated black metal and very innovative grindcore, like in this particular case, the big country from North America is slowly surpassing the U.S. in the rise of powerful and deafening metal.

I remember years ago how amazing and liberating musically speaking was the first time I heard grindcore, it denied completely any sense of melody or musical technique, it didn't even considered itself as music, original grindcore bands considered themselves closer to noise and in a "campaign" for musical destruction, it was a big revolution in extreme metal, the mix of metal and hardcore that came originally with thrash, was taken to places beyond our imagination.

Based in Ottawa, Fuck the Facts is an amazing band, their approach is so fresh that brings me memories of the first records by Napalm Death or Carcass in a sense, but at the same times, the band is taking that quality to some interesting new places, singer Melanie Mongeon is no longer one of the only women in the growling business, but surely she is one if the fiercest, while the band impeccable dynamics are admirable as the band musical skills are quickly put in evidence as the band transits easily from blast beats frenzy into highly melodic and weird running passages, perhaps a little fellow countrymen Voivod influence here or there.

These might be great timed for the giant of the north as the conservative government has been put to sleep and Canada seems to be looking their unique place in the world with the leadership of the young Justin Trudeau as prime minister, the country still has a long way to go and a lot to prove, and as Desire Will Rot opener says, the country is Everywhere Yet Nowhere, the song containing astonishing dynamics with great interplay between the too incredible to believe drumming, the rabid bass and guitars that need to be heard to be believed.

Grindcore thanks to bands like Fuck the Fact has become something else far from its more brutish, monotone and linear days, and the band is quick to show it in tunes like Shadows Collide exhibiting eye and mouth opening polyrhythms along the usual energy devastating explosions as the band proves that thanks to the human hurricane known as Mathieu Vilandré they are a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Let’s not leave unmentioned the talents of guitarist Topon Das and Johnny Ibay true stars of the album as they show themselves apt enough to flesh out the whole record including its vertiginous time changes going from skin scratching to ear piercing, and if that wasn't enough the band also carries a first rate bassist in the person of Marc Bourgon who is not shy on showing his musical muscle on testosterone filled tunes like La Mort I, which also features again outstanding jazz like guitar work by Das and Ibay.

I see Fuck the Facts as the undisputed leaders of a genre that refuses to die and that is successfully managing to evolve and to still be relevant, just as Canada, a land about to regain its rightful place in this ever changing world.