Track Review: C.B. Murdoc’s “The Green”

Published: June 23, 2016

C.B. Murdoc: The Green

I’m not the biggest fan of technical death metal. To me, a large majority of it is style-over-substance, but C.B. Murdoc is different. This band sounds like a cross between Atheist, At the Gates and Meshuggah. The band’s foundation is based on the same kind of high intensity, raw, melodic death metal sound that made Slaughter of the Soul such an instant classic; including the throat-shredding vocal style. This foundation is combined with the technical chaos of Atheist’s Unquestionable Presence and Jupiter. The icing on the cake, though, is the quirky rhythmic experimentation and ball-crushing heaviness of  Mehsuggah’s best material (but without repetition). This particular track, ‘The Green’, is fairly representative of the album as a whole. It’s an exhausting, chaotic, and aggressive track that occasionally finds room for a bit of melodic relief. What pulls it all together, though, is the ripping vocals and the solid riffs that appear just often enough to keep the chaos from veering off the rails.

The album, Here Be Dragons will be release on 24 June, 2016 through ViciSolum Productions.

Order the album at vicisolumrecords.com/album/here-be-dragons.

The yanked-string hits and whammy pedal warbles recall Meshuggah-informed bands like the underappreciated Car Bomb, but they bring more guttural force to bear than just about anything this side of Decapitated. – StereoGum

A seeming clusterfuck of sounds pour out including black metal (four of the members used to be in BM band Mörk Gryning), prog, death and, yes, tech death, sludge, and even jazz. On paper it sounds like a fucking disaster. In your ears, however, it somehow comes together like a post-djent souffle that’s delicious and rocks the fuck out. – Metal Sucks

When the guys in Meshuggah constantly gush about a band you have never heard of and even insist on taking them out on the road with them, you better have a listen. It’s hard to describe C.B Murdoc’s sound other than the fact that they are really good. With influences ranging from At the Gates to Gorguts and Meshuggah, these guys play a highly original and very intense and energetic style of extreme metal, and this album should put them on everyone’s radar as a band to watch in the coming years. – Prog Sphere

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