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Inkarakua - Self Titled (UK Division Records) Review by Steve Green
Although it's blindingly obvious to me now, it took three of four songs for me to decide who Inkarakua sounded like. First up, there's Cristian Rocco's vocals. He has a strong accent, which reminds me of either a famous Brazilian Thrash band, (I'm fed up of name checking them the past few weeks) or an underground Mexican grind band from the Endless Brutality Of Men roster. Despite the fact that he's actually singing in Italian, his voice really does have a South American flavour to it. The same goes for the music. Inkarakua produce a heavy mixture of bouncy Thrash and molten hardcore and it's all wrapped up in Entombed's patent Rot N Roll. In fact, stick LG Petrov in the classic line-up of Sepultura,
make him sing in Italian, but with a South American accent, and you have Inkuarakua to a tee.
Enough of trying to work out how the band sound, the most important question is, are they any good? Hell yeah! Is the answer to that one. This sounds superb. This is uncompromising Metal that drives forward and batters anything that stands in its way. A lot of this is down to the thick and luscious production which just gives it that extra bit of oomph. And I'm left suitable impressed with the eight tracks on offer here. My only complaint is that the cd isn't long enough. Clocking in at around the half hour mark, I could have easily sat through half as much again. Have a listen yourself at: www.myspace.com/inkarakua
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