The Secret   

Disintoxication

Goodfellow Records 2007

At its heart The Secret is an experimental metalcore band from Italy.  But truly it is so much more.  This four piece mashes together so many different styles and welds them into an oddly angled piece of extreme aggression.  Shrill, simmering guitar notes over hissing cymbals and spaced out epic riffs serve as a corrosive ear melting injection on Intoxication.  Poisoned blood Is Never Enough fuses metalcore breakdowns with grindcore blasting into a deadly inferno consuming all who hear its twisted hostility.  Twisting sonic textures explode into belligerent rhythms and cataclysmic tempos on Saul.  Umea, named after the Swedish City where this coal choked gem was recorded, is more menacing and sinister with its slower tempo giving the song an almost industrial feel.  Death to Pigs erupts like a flurry of flailing fists, simultaneously spilling forth blood and bizarre guitar harmonics.  The song then settles into a mosh inducing breakdown with leaping vocals to close out the track.  Kill the Dead is a frenzy of grindcore blast beats and tendon snapping breakdowns.  Marco's vocals are throat searing screams that have to leave his lungs drowning in blood after each performance.  The Secret should illustrate to all these sadly pathetic metalcore bands out there how to be interesting and how to avoid slipping into cookie-cutter generic mindsets.  Keeping ideas fresh, and constantly striving for savage expressionism help The Secret maintain artistic integrity when many of their peers fall on their swords for commercial appeal.