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Beaten to Death released new LP & music video (stream them)

By Doug Moore

Beaten to Death
Beaten to Death

Norway’s Beaten to Death have quietly become one of grindcore’s most exciting bands. Now two albums deep in their career, Beaten to Death have mastered a novel trick: grafting jangly, chiming ’90s-indie-style guitar work onto bruising death/grind rhythmic frameworks. The band’s lyrics are also appropriately lighthearted — their roster of song titles includes “True Norwegian Internet Metal Warrior” and “The Flesh Prince With Swell Hair.”

Their second album, Dødsfest!, came out at the beginning of October. We’ve debuted the straight-ahead music video for “Vinni Butterfly” over at Invisible Oranges this morning. Here’s an excerpt from our writeup:

Norway’s Beaten To Death have identified and avoided this awkward middle ground that comes with most “bands playing in a warehouse” music vids. The video for “Vinni Butterfly” is not imitation live footage, but the real thing — the footage was shot at two record release parties at the beginning of last month. Their physical presence matches their sound. They are a tight, unpretentious band. You do not see TRUE METAL TYRANTS, but a group of workaday musicians who are probably having a little more fun than most of their musical peers. (Their bassist plays one of those ridiculous Gene Simmons signature Cort basses with an axe-shaped body.)

Read the whole writeup over at Invisible Oranges. Dødsfest! is available for download via Beaten to Death’s Bandcamp. Don’t sleep on this one. Watch the video and stream the album in full below.

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