Released on: 23rd June 2020
No Place To Hide or How I Was Seduced By A Synthesiser is the first full-length release from the Italian grind outfit Stench Of Profit. Who by the strength of their intro/outro tracks could consider a career in tracking new-wave inspired videos.
In using the ole bait and switch trick to grant “a last few minutes of peace” unto the listener before biting their ear off harder than frostbite in a freezer their surprise mechanics are questionably articulate considering the main dystopian meal of the subject at hand. Excluding the uncharacteristic melodic shift from that deceptive lede the rest of the album is a grounded endeavor.
Grounded in this context is eighteen tracks of viscera strewn over twenty-eight minutes of brutalist noise. Stench Of Profit are not just gimmickcore but are instead just really fucking heavy, and tuned. Forget Dope™ if this album was a narcotic it would be a strong dry stout. As it is incredibly coherent in musical conventions considering the style. While remaining as succinct as the genre name implies.
No Place To Hide is a firm grind on which to build a chonky discography upon. With its verbose riffs, grainy amps and extrapolated blastbeats it reeks of experience. Where the album is itself an event worth its weighty expression in salt.
7/10
