Album Spotlight: Les 150 Passions Meurtrieres
The records opener Will To Power begins with heavy feedback for 35 seconds before building anticipation with a couple chugs and tom hits before pounding you over the head with a tasty ass riff that throws you into a fast part. A stompy ass mosh part follows, before the song abruptly stops and rings out until it throws you into the main breakdown tailor made for swinging. Stephen is screaming his head off at this point in the song. The next segment kicks in and the leads in the background that follow Stephen’s vocals, it’s succeeded with another breakdown. Just guitar and drums follow that up before the ending breakdown hits you like a train. This is what metallic hardcore should be. Hard and riffy as fuck.
New Sadist is the next track and it starts with a sample in French before a drum fill starts the track off. It sounds like a normal metallic hardcore song until Stephen comes in and the breakdown does alongside him which brings an aura of evil to his vocals. The next part is led in with a new riff and hits on the hi hat. A primal yell and a nasty fill ring in the next breakdown. The drumming is super complex on this track and when it goes half time it’s so fucking heavy. A stomp part comes in over some leads, with the track switching between some more leads and a nasty mosh part. The song rings out with feedback before the REAL breakdown happens which is led in with another insane fill. The mosh part ends the song.
I won’t pretend this record is flawless because it isn’t, there’s a 6 and a half minute instrumental track (which is the title track). By no means is it bad but I normally skip it as it’s kinda grungy and doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the record which is riffy as fuck. It’s a bummer cuz Stephen does a scream towards the end which seems like it’s gonna lead into a nasty breakdown. Instead it’s some more leads which yes, is in fact sick. But it doesn’t feature the heavy riffs you’d expect from Kickback and it’s more akin to the Into The Wayside tracks from Ceremony’s Rohnert Park not bad but it’s normally a skip.
However they bounce right back with the most punk song on this record, Ruining The Show. Which throws you straight into a two step part. A stomp part is the next segment before the main 2 step part comes, the riff for it is so so good. It’s metallic, punk, and super thrashy. The stompy mosh part comes back before giving you the first real breakdown that still retains the stomp of the previous mosh part. Then the actual breakdown is led in with a side to side with the callout and the verse by French rapper Profecy. It’s all in French so I don’t know what he’s saying, but it’s still pretty sick. It blends 2 styles that just go together. Stephen comes back with a couple lines before the song ends.
On The Prowl is next which starts with a sample that says “I’m going out on the prowl tonight, and I’m taking you with me”, before some atmospheric drums and leads kickoff the song. There’s this really cool part that starts the first verse where the drums stop and it’s just chugs before a super heavy breakdown just punches you in the face, the first verse has some good riffs but the second verse slows down the main riff which just sounds mean and evil. Stephen screams domination which kicks off a side to side interspersed with parts to windmill too. A start and stop drum roll begins my favorite mosh part on this record. It’s fast but played with a slow type of groove on the hi hat which gives it this type of groove you don’t hear done too much and when you do hear it, it’s normally not done well. But it’s done phenomenally here. The mosh part on the hats switches onto the crash which comes at the perfect time. After that is a pretty good stomp part but I feel like it’s made to let the listener catch their breath before the big breakdown. The big breakdown has these kinda jazzy hi hat hits before you just get demolished by the breakdown. The drums are slow, the riff is gallopy, and then the intro lead from the beginning ends the song off. This is a perfect hardcore song and is probably my favorite track Kickback ever released.
Murder Minded continues the pace bringing the two step drum parts of Ruining The Show with the moshy riffs of On The Prowl. It throws you into said 2 step parts with some of Stephen’s most evil lyrics alongside his most evil vocal style. Now would be the time I put some of the lyrics here but they’re kinda fucked up so I’m not gonna do that. There’s this cool slowdown after the two step that’s not exactly super moshy before the main two step part comes back in. Then it switches to the first real breakdown at a minute in which has another great riff. There’s another slowdown which is a short lead into another breakdown. There’s this really good lead in for the final breakdown which sounds pretty post hardcore-ish before it just explodes into a breakdown meant for committing acts of violence in the pit to. The song ends with a pretty nice slowdown part that’s moshy but not super intense, finally a sample of a BDSM film plays and that’s the record. The sample disturbed me at first because I thought it was some snuff shit, but after doing some digging I was able to locate what the sample is from and breathed a sigh of relief. If Forever War was a record to go into a war with, this is one to kill to.
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