{"id":68994,"date":"2017-07-27T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=68994"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T11:32:41","slug":"tech-death-thursday-bufihimat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/tech-death-thursday-bufihimat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Death Thursday: Bufihimat"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you want your tech death to go hard and expand your mind cells? The answer to that is \u201cyes you do and where do I sign up?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Before we get into the proceedings, the Mighty Spear has decreed that I must bestow up thee the news of thine Tech Death. Here, here it go:<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be honest with you all. I\u2019ve mostly soured on the death metal genre as whole with the exception of a handful of bands who I can count on my appendages to regularly deliver the goods. Even more challenging is the task of finding something that scratches the itch with tech death. To be clear, Russia\u2019s Bufihimat <\/b>is not something that fits nicely within the confines of this niche genre, but there\u2019s something about this trio that certainly stands out and feels right at home in this space. If you find yourself obsessed with the likes of bands such as Wormed, Gorguts<\/b>, and Pyrrhon\u2019s<\/b> super weird take on dissonant death metal, then Bufihimat <\/b>has the potential to knock your actual socks off.<\/p>\n
The aforementioned influences definitely lay the groundwork for Bufihimat\u2019s assault on the senses. They deploy equal amounts of spazzy weird death metal riffment, coupled with a propensity to bash away on the lower registers of the fretboard without overstaying their welcome to risk becoming overly chug-a-lug. When they slow things down, they either unearth some swirling Gorgutsian dissonance or run circles around you with Pyrrhon\u2019s weirdness. Whatever tact they chose to inundate upon the listener, they can command the attention of those with even the shortest of attention spans.\u00a0 The tracks on I <\/i>are not terribly lengthy nor do they need to be. That particular aspect may be the thing that has me all Lady Gaga about this album.<\/p>\n
Should I be talking about tech death here and how this band is relevant? Well, the fret board acrobatics are most certainly impressive, but the showmanship of being all \u201clook at me and all this rad shit I can do on guitar\u201d are reigned in so that the songwriting takes precedence over everything else. It\u2019s the balance between sprawling technical riffs and head wounding dissonance that Bufihimat toggle back and forth on that is at the heart of their modus operandi. If the descriptions being represented here are to be believed, take the opener, \u201cSplited\u201d for example. It starts off with winding and dizzying riffs with a dash of pinch harmonics (pinch harmonics are featured prominently throughout the album). When the track slows down into Gorguts\/Pyrrhon territory, the riff takes on a life of its own as it literally short circuits before your very ear drums. Sure that\u2019s a studio recording trick, but it’s a damn fine and effective one at that.<\/p>\n