{"id":65214,"date":"2017-05-01T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=65214"},"modified":"2017-05-01T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:00:28","slug":"youll-succumb-to-succumb-on-succumb-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/youll-succumb-to-succumb-on-succumb-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ll Succumb to Succumb on Succumb<\/i> (A Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alternate Title: Succumb’s Succumb<\/em> Will Make You Succumb to\u00a0Succumb.<\/p>\n

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Note: Typing the word “succumb” that many times in a row is a reality-warping experience. Not recommended for those suffering from vertigo, irritable bowel syndrome or a weak heart.<\/p>\n

Begin Review: Was last year a good year for death metal? I don’t remember. I seem to recall 2016 being a year of eclecticism, with no single genre trouncing the others. Thus far, 2017 is a different story*. Unless black or doom or thrash or power (kidding; not a chance) can get their shit together, death metal is going to take all the cake this year and leave none for the rest of us. If things continue to trend in the direction\u00a0they’re currently trending, death metal will wipe the floor with the bloodied pulp which passes for the remains of the other genres we know and love or know and hate or know and don’t care about. Enter San Francisco’s Succumb<\/strong>. With their self-titled debut album (Succumb<\/em>), these scene toddlers crawl onto the table, mash their tiny fists into the cake and smear it all over their chubby little faces, somehow managing to get\u00a0a bit of it in their mouths in the process. Love them, hate them, don’t care about them: any way you dice it, they have arrived to continue the glorious trend.<\/p>\n

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HI KIDS, DO YOU LIKE DEATH METAL?<\/p><\/div>\n

Succumb introduce themselves with “The Initiate”, a bold shot across the bow of your diminutive seafaring vessel. It is a short instrumental, rent by off-kilter grooves which quickly\u00a0get back on their kilter and drag you overboard into eel-infested waters. At once grimy and technical, it’s a bit of a show-off. “Hey, look what we can do. You like? You want more? Okay–but first you must succummmmmmmmmmb<\/em>.” And succumb you will. Probably. Unless you’re one of those hard-headed types who arrive\u00a0late to the show and stand all the way in the back with your arms crossed, refusing to tap your foot or nod your head, much less jump in the pit<\/em>.<\/p>\n