Black Pestilence - Tradition is Obsolete (2011)

 If Black Pestilence did something unusually weird by their debut, than with their returning album they successfully exceeded that. And it also couldn't be determined as some "let's just stay at the good old recipe, since that worked out last time too" thing, cause they tried to introduce their twisted perspective from another way. 
   As the title already suspects, they drifted further from the traditional sound of black metal, and on this album blackened themes also had smaller role. Instead the mix of punk and noise based industrial-like insanity was put into focus. As the atmosphere used to take quite noteable background role in classic black metal mainly as the side effect of poor sound quality, the same background role black metal influences had on "Tradition is Obsolete". Also it took the frequently returning framing role that punk themes had on "Vice". Even though the debut was everything but chilling, this switch made the second album somehow even more intense. For this feeling probably the lack of blackened sound could be judged for that, as the intense bass lines was led to hear, and also the audience friendlier punk basics had bigger chance to prevail. This more melodic and kind of simplified approach might be easier to go into, but only until the industrial noise sets on. That sometimes recalls the cheeping-beeping sounds of ancient nintendo or tetris games, and sometimes reminds to a rightfully forgotten remix of some terrible '90s europop song. And the chaos lets loose again. Interestingly the same features are giving the reasons why this music is easy to go into and why it's not. Even though the punk-black metal elements reminding to Barbatos somehow; after listening to "Tradition is Obsolete", the commonly shared theory that makes Japanese responsible for the creation of the sickest productions, might needs deeper reconsideration.