An Italian band specializing in Psychotic, Adrenalinic Grindcore. Formed in 2003, and since then, they have released a demo, three EPs, and a full-length album in 2012. On April 21st, 2023, the band released their second studio album 1, Capitale Umano. The album was released through End of Silence Records.
Introduction:
TSUBO, Capitale Umano: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Capitale Umano
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of TSUBO and their Capitale Umano album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features an artistry of guitar work of rapid-fire riffs and thunderous bass riffs. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involve ferocity and intensity vocals that slice through the music like a hot knife through butter. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of brutal/hamming drum strikes/fills and beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: The recording sounds like it was done in the basement of nine pits of hell…
Immediately, the listener smashes that play button, and one is welcome straight into the music and the opening piece (cutting out all the fancy intro), Sotto Stretta Sorveglianza, and the following fourteen pieces. Which takes the listener on a journey of pure extreme metal music that deserves the volume cranked up to eleven and a whirlwind of non-stop headbanging.
As one continues their psychotic adrenaline journey of fifteen songs that are kept to the original abrasive-sounding grind and the aggression of hardcore punk of the 80s extreme metal hey-days—simultaneously mentioned before, TSUBO was born from the extreme metal ashes of 2003, with this feeling and sound, like the band has risen from a crypt, after being waking from a long slumber… due to their psychotic adrenaline -yet sick, loud, heavy, raw (lyrics of inner struggles) songs that capture the essence of short-burst songwriting of both -early Napalm Death/Carcass and American act P.L.F. while the production and recording sound like there were done in the basement of nine pits of hell…
Capitale Umano provides and delivers the listener’s ears with this ear-melting and neck/spine-breaking release—simultaneously, as I was continuously listening and inking the review. I did find that Capitale Umano has created something new and fresh;- yet keeping it raw and underground and that’s a bonus for me.
Capitale Umano delivers this perfect and well-executed evil fruit of art upon the listener’s soul and ears, an equally solid release. Simultaneously, the composition/score of the music, instruments, and production are well-executed. At the same time, the rest of the release consists of various tones, moods, and tempos that consist of instrumental artistry of guitar work of rapid-fire (heavy and extreme.
Yet somewhat avant-garde) riffage/shredding, thunderous bass riffs, brutal/hamming drum strikes/fills and beats, synth/keys inserts and shouty-violent vocals with moments of their native tongue of shouting antics from thirteen of their short songs
The eighth piece Guerre (over five minutes) is more of a slow/mid-tempo and aggressive piece, and the twelve-piece Antropocene (just over six minutes) is a rapid instrumental/vocal onslaught -with the last two minutes, going for this horror-ish instrumental and spoken word atmosphere (simultaneously with these spoken words and the atmosphere of the twelve-piece, “I get this horror (Italian film director Dario Argento and composer of Claudio Simonetti vibe/feeling) feel”).
The outcome is that each song is different, full of life, heavy and brutal, and each composition/characteristic is nicely placed at the right moment, when needed — well-balanced and delivered by awesome devilmanship.
The album comes to an end with the last song, song name We want to give a shoutout to TSBUO for letting us review their album, Capitale Umano album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to “Stretta sorveglianza”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on TSUBO and their Capitale Umano album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Capitale Umano is a perfect release of this forbidden fruit rich in heaviness, rawness, powerful, brutal, pure psychotic adrenaline extreme music. A band rising from 2003 but (“for me”) providing a release with a modern sound (rough around the edge) in production -but yet ears say this is “like discovering an album/music in a dusty old attic.” — a release for any extreme/hardcore punk and old-school grindcore.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork captures the old-school extreme metal heydays and the lyrical theme of the music
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of TSUBO, and their album Capitale Umano.
This concludes the TSUBO, Capitale Umano review.
Track-Listing:
- Stretta sorveglianza
- Overdose
- Ultimo colpo
- Rivolta
- Scienza
- Arma ideologica
- Vili bastardi
- Guerre
- Capitale umano
- Neoplasia dogmatica
- Il tempo non cura
- Antropocene
- Nomofobia
- Cosa sei disposto a perdere
- Equilibrio instabile
TSUBO is:
- Gabriele “Fasano” Giordani – guitars
- Aristodemo “ThrashDemo” De Cesaris – drums
- Valentino Roma – vocals
- Synthesizers on tracks 4, 8, 9 and 12 by Guglielmo Nodari and Lorenzo Pesce
- After eleven years, they have come out with their second full-length album ↩︎
