Intensus: Intensus

Not sure how to describe this little 'project' from multi-instrumentalist Eli Litwin (Knife the Glitter, Burden, Normal Love) and the folks at Metal Blade Records, but it's kind of a mish mash of hardcore, avant-garde, noise, mathcore, metal, screamo, punk, and deathcore. Sixteen tracks, most no longer than three minutes long, and the entire set features a wide variety of vocalists from the scene, including Between the Buried and Me's Tommy Rogers, Robert Meadows from A Life Once Lost, and a slew of others. For the most part, it's a puzzling listen, with disjointed arrangements pummeling the listener and the screaming, grunting, and growling vocals just all over the place, making for an almost uncomfortable listen at times. One track just leads into another, and there's not much to differentiate any of them, with even the singers all just screaming up a storm and not offering any variety. Rogers does the most with what he has, offering up at least something of note on the pummeling "Outlast Robinsum" and the grinding closer "I'm a Wisdom". In the end, Intensus had the potential to be a good idea and quite 'intense', but it's really all just a lot of noise. INTENSUS personnel: Drums, Guitar, Bass, Songwriter, Producer: Eli Litwin Guest Vocalists: Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) Robert Meadows (A Life Once Lost) Jesse Korman (The Number Twelve Looks Like You) Chris Alfano (East of the Wall / Postman Syndrome) Jerry Jones (Trophy Scars) Travis Weinand (Burden / Tetsuo) Evan Moore (Gypsy Wig / Birth Screams) Ruston Grosse Guest guitar soloists: Alex Nagle (Satanized / ex-Normal Love) Jason Herrmann (Burden / Tetsuo)

Track Listing
1.Eskia tu Daemonia (feat. Alex Nagie) - 1:32
2.The Intense (feat. Evan Moore) - 1:02
3.New York, Yeah Scranton (feat. Jerry Jones) - 2:10
4.Colon Cleanse Your Sins (feat. Jesse Korman) - 2:35
5.Trampled by Horns (Feat. Chris Alfano) - 3:32
6.Festering (feat. Evan Moore) - 1:29
7.Outlast Robinsum (feat. Tommy Rogers) - 3:12
8.Anomaly Detected: Supernova Remnant N 63A (feat. Travis Weinand & Jason Herrmann) - 6:21
9.The Pit of Hands (feat. Chris Alfano) - 2:03
10.Man Crusher (feat. Robert Meadows) - 2:19
11.Time Killer Shitter (feat. Jesse Korman) - 2:26
12.The Church Forever (feat. Jerry Jones) - 1:36
13.Anomaly Reached: Supernova Remnant N 63A (feat. Travis Weinand) - 3:24
14.I Gave Up (feat. Robert Meadows) - 2:41
15.Axis Mundi (feat. Ruston Grosse) - 1:50
16.I'm a Wisdom (feat. Tommy Rogers) - 8:53

Added: September 25th 2011
Reviewer: Pete Pardo
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Related Link: Metal Blade Records
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Language: english

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