fuckthefact is ottawa's most crazy and fucked up grindcore quartet, somewhere between converge and napalm death, playing an unique style which combines technical and oppressive metal with harsh and furious grindcore ferocity. today signed to relapse.

16 MP3 Songs
METAL: Death Metal, METAL: Metalcore



Details:
ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
Two of the most talked grindcore bands of the underground scene together for this killer split in a awesome package. Ottawaâs chaotic and insane Fuck The Facts and brutal and twisted french heroes Sergent Slaughter finally team up to bring you sixteen tunes of the most uncontrolled sick and extreme music you ever heard. Recently FTF have signed to Relapse Records, and will be in touring U.S. on the infamous Relapse Contamination Tour 2006 sharing stages with Unheartly Trance, Facedowninshit and Buried Inside. Sergent Slaughter decided to split up right after this release by refusing a deal with Primitive Recordings, Roger Beaujardâs (from Mortician) label. Today former members play in Kobra Kommando and Whoretorn.

PRESS:
Incorporate fret board dynamics that make you want to head bang into somewhat slower tempo grooves and a tech tag back into the sonic destruction and you've got a good start on fucking the facts. Itâs a nice blend of the two predominate metal categories, death and black, with a lot of high speed tech metal to bridge the gap. The vocals are a cruel snarl bleating inaudible banshee cries. At times it's quite reminiscent of Cryptopsy but on a more melodic scale. The second track opens with soft picking over a French sample and leads into an emotional take on Emperor and Anaal Nathrakh. Scales are mutilated as they cross into a Dillinger take on black metal and then just as quickly as it began they revert into tremolo madness. Most of the record is completely pummelling, whether it be drifting into a moshcore breakdown or brain melting tremolo. Theyâre fucking the facts right out of music, crossing boundaries always keeping ideas fresh, but not in the disjointed, endless way many modern spazz acts like to perform. It's nice to know Canada can still produce metal acts with international potential.
(EXCLAIM!)

Those wacky Canadians from Fuck the facts start out this split collaboration with 8 blistering tracks of their unique grindcore style and I'm absolutely fucking floored. There's so much going on, I was even a bit overwhelmed at first. There's chugging death metal riffing, sweet melodies that pop out of nowhere, eerie harmonic runs, intense vocals with tons of variety and of course plenty of blast beats to go around. I heard some of their stuff years ago and this surely sounds different than I can recall. It seems they stopped utilizing the drum computer and switched to a live drummer. Well, the playing is tight as shit and I don't see a drum computer pulling off those jazzy rhythms in "Ventriloquist complex" either so this seems to work in their favor. The guitar work is just pure madness and makes Fuck the facts totally stand on their own. The vocals are sorta' high pitched and raspy screams, difficult to describe and very distinct. I love the writing here, they really know how to create short songs that actually sound like a lot of effort was involved. Perhaps this is what you would wind up with if bands like Converge or even Damad start playing grindcore songs, what with that compressed guitar sound and all? The last two tracks are live recordings and while the recordings are tolerable (a bit muddy, but I've heard worse) it doesn't hold a stick against the studio recordings that are way more powerful. I already said it time and time again and I'm afraid this review is turning out to be a boring read indeed, but I just can't get over the fact how awe inspiring this material is. I really need to check out more of their older stuff now as it seems I've been missing out on some great shit.
(VAMPIRE MAGAZINE)

Fuck the Facts have definitely improved over the years. The songwriting has improved quite a bit and they are significantly tighter then they once were. I'm not sure if this material is available on any of their other releases. But it's definitely the strongest material that I've heard to date. The crazy grindcore meets math core style of the band is still intact, but the sound in much tighter and the songwriting flows much better now. One thing I've always liked about the band is that you never know what to expect. A few of the songs here feature clean interludes and intros, which if I'm not mistaken is something new for the band. Fuck the Facts are definitely one of the best grindcore bands from Canada, and one of the most original I've heard in sometime.
(UNBOUND ZINE)

This is quite different from what I have already heard from this canadian band but I haven't heard their latest stuff to say the truth... I'm pretty they used to have a drum machine in the past, but this is definitely real drumming here. Their style is still eccentric and aggressive, but they sound much more metal than before, at least that seems that way to me. I've seen Fuck the Facts labelled as "powerviolence", I guess they play a mix of different extreme genres, mainly taking elements from death metal, grindcore, hardcore, thrash... this stuff is blistering and fast but also pretty damn technical, with quite intricate song structures, expert riffing and some nice arrangements. Vocals are high-pitched shriekings, guitars have a ripping, thrashing sound and drumming is just really tight. The overall sound production is quite good and clear but definitely not what I'd call heavy, it's slightly raw. Also, the guitar riffs often have a depressive & melodic touch to them, I can't completely get into this stuff personally but . Honestly, Fuck the Facts reminds me of Relapse bands like Dillinger Escape Plan & Coalesce...
(BRAIN DEAD ZINE)