Cerebral Turbulency - Impenetrable Released: 2001 Cost: $15 Tracklist:

Reviews: From the same label that brought us Alienation Mental comes another grind act, Cerebral Turbulency. These guys lean more towards straightforward and catchy grindcore. This album seems to carry on right from where their previous effort, Forces Closing Down, left off. Of course, there are a few differences: the thicker and clearer production, the countless vocal styles used and sharper and more focused songwriting. Also they seem to have experimented with some weird time changes and stuff like on “Yes! Legitimate” and “Different World.” But for the most part of the album they are still the same band I had heard before: a grindcore band with a penchant for writing great catchy tunes as well the propensity to launch into some blisteringly intense sessions.

Trust me, when they catch you in the middle of one of their groovy parts, you’re going to drop whatever you are doing and end up headbanging to this stuff like a maniac, either voluntarily or involuntarily. The biggest selling point of this album is definitely the variety on offer, and as I write this very sentence I am treated to a melodic solo on “Adios a las corridas,” followed soon after by the punkish “Don’t Let Her Consume!”

The vocal styles cover almost the entire gamut of the extreme metal range, from hardcore to deep death metal growling, to grindcore screaming, to guttural goregrind gurgling - and also some frog croaks. Like Alienation Mental, they have also experimented with some electronica on “Development,” though the results are less than spectacular.

It’s hard to pinpoint any particular favorites here, especially as they cover 26 songs in under 35 minutes and so many different things happen in each song. Obviously these guys have taken pains to ensure that this does not turn out to be a boring or standard grindcore album, and they have been entirely successful. (8/10) -Maelstrom E-Zine