Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma (2011)

Blunt Force Trauma is Cavalera Conspiracy's second studio album, and is a complete letdown on virtually every level.

1. Warlord [3:05]
2. Torture [1:52]
3. Lynch Mob [2:32]
4. Killing Inside [3:28]
5. Thrasher [2:49]
6. I Speak Hate [3:10]
7. Target [2:37]
8. Genghis Khan [4:23]
9. Burn Waco [2:52]
10. Rasputin [3:22]
11. Blunt Force Trauma [3:58]
12. Psychosomatic (Special Edition Disk) [3:07]
13. Jihad Joe (Special Edition Disk) [3:29]
14. Electric Funeral (Special Edition Disk) [5:39]

Blunt Force Trauma is one of those albums you either love or you hate. Though to be honest, I can't understand how someone could love this album unless they were a die-hard fan. The lyrics (on the off chance you can understand them) lack any depth or significant meaning, the guitar riffs are what you would expect to hear in a typical (almost comically stereotypical) death metal album, and the tracks are all too short to elaborate on anything that actually has potential. Each track revolves around being as loud as possible, and as short as possible (If you picked up the standard album, it's just a little more than half an hour long!).

The only tracks on this album I can say I enjoyed at all were Lynch Mob, for it's vocals, and Electric Funeral, for the song structure and lyrics. Ironically, Lynch Mob features the guest vocals of Roger Miret (from Agnostic Front), while the latter is a Black Sabbath cover. Normally, I try to at mention most of the tracks on any given album I'm reviewing, but there's so little in here worth talking about I'm at a loss. The last 40 seconds of Target is melodeath, instead of just death metal, and the last half of the track Blunt Force Trauma cuts the vocals and actually sounds decent, so I guess that's something interesting. *shrug*

So in the end it turns out that there's next to nothing about Cavalera Conspiracy themselves that I actually like. On the other hand, I suppose Blunt Force Trauma is the perfect template on how to make a bland and unimaginative death metal album; solos that sound like they were made up on the spot, lyrics that were possibly made up even quicker, and the constant recycling of quick drumming and strumming. Unless you're the metal enthusiast who needs to listen to every metal album they can get their hands onto, I recommend you stay away from this one.

Overall Score:
39/100