Very shortly after releasing this, their 6th full length in fifteen years, Cerebral Turbulency ceased existing as a band after a fifteen year reign of putting and keeping the Czech Republic on the Eastern European map playing a decidedly unusual, creative and memorable metallic grindcore. Over the years, Cerebral Turbulency have stood among the best that the Czech Republic have to offer which is a statement in itself being that they are in league with a crop of bands that are a cut above your average run of the mill grindcore band. But after a very positive run that has produced excellence such as the Impenetrable and Germ of Error albums, it would appear that Segregace K 0 serves as the final release. Why, it seems like it was just a few days ago that I cut and paste an interview with these guys together for a print zine that I was responsible for. It’s fitting that Cerebral Turbulency’s long time drummer, Khaaranus Productions label overlord, one-time subject of an interview with your truly and all around one-nutter, Michal Cichy be able to offer this final full length as a farewell on behalf of his band.

On this release, the band gets things off to a hectic pace right from the get-go and never seem to let down from a dizzying array of frantic tempo chances and guitar driven low end bombardments of sound. You can hear a mixture of the well processed vocals bubbling and churning away, matched up with raspy guttural yells and various shrieks throughout this. Cichy’s drums are being worked frantically lots of double bass, plenty of blast beats. There are definite signs of musical progression here which, along with a strong production, should vault this offering to the top of your “now playing” heap.

Initially, I was trying to determine if I had a problem with this album’s propensity to chase after latter-day Nasum, when the Swedish band lost the connection with its straight forward grindcore roots and took on a more varied and in my mind, a sanitized approach to writing music. The sheer power of Human 2.0 and Helvete was evident, however the non-straight forward approach to blasting through without frills or bullshit was alienating and disappointing to me. I can’t recall the last time I listened to much of anything on the Nasum Relapse catalog post Inhale/Exhale, but as long as a house fire doesn’t destroy my pre-Relapse vinyls, I’m not sure that I am missing out on much. I hear some of these same almost-technical tendencies on Segregace K 0, but after repeated listens, I’m starting to warm up to it all on account of its crazy blown out slap yo momma in the face approach to writing blown out and weird death metal tinged tunes that are as heavy as a diaper pulled from a bog, overflowing with three loads of moose shit and possibly a drooling, used rubber.

While it’s sad to learn of the bands’ passing, it’s great that they choose to go off on a very high note. It’s apparent that they saw the end coming and decided to push themselves as hard as possible and it’s nice that they didn’t fuck up, stumble or turn into a bunch of goddamned pea-brained jerks in the process. You would be a fool not to seek this out and grab yourself a copy of this.

Review bySoiled Depends