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Death/extreme metalheads...Get this!

SoulFire | Miami, FL USA | 03/12/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is really great. Asesino plays straight forward fast brutal death metal with incredibly ferocious rapid-fire blastbeats, heavy riffs and sick,aggressive death vocals. This is the band/sideproject of Dino Cazares the god-like guitar player from Fear Factory/Brujeria. Of course his riffs totally brutal and even more diverse with some solos and leads in there. Dino, just like in FF, likes to play and create cool catchy riffs in combination with the double bass and blastbeat drumming. The band has some Slayer influences [Slayer is Dino's favourite band] but most of it is death and some grind. The lyrics are pretty sick and of course sung in spanish. However i would like to point out that this is no Brujeria. First of all Brujeria is Grindcore, Asesino is Death Metal and while Brujeria has that famous dark humourous side, nothing is funny or amusing in Asesino. This band is plain brutal playing pure death metal. There isn't much technical stuff here certainly not like Cryptopsy or Nile, just badass aggresive songs. I would recommend this band to any extreme metal fans out there. Fans of Skinless, Vader, Deicide, Decapitated, Nasum etc...Get ASESINO!"

Brujeria Junior

Depleted Uranium | Centrally Isolated, USA | 02/10/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"By now it should be easy to predict what to expect when you have a side project band involving Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera of Fear Factory. You get heavy riffing, machine-gun drumming, and stacatto Spanish lyrics, heavy on the Mexican drug culture slang. Throw in Tony Campos from Static-X, and what do you get? An ersatz Brujeria album.Campos pulls bass and lyrical duties, which he fulfills adequately. But musically, he must not have had any input because this disc is pure Dino. Don't get me wrong, I really like Dino's guitar playing, but it lacks variety. I have come to believe that the variety found in Fear Factory's work must be derived from the input of the other band members.I'm not sure why Asesino merits their own album. This disc would be a good tie-breaker at a metal trivia contest. Which is it? Brujeria? Asesino? Or Dino's next clone of the former?This disc is OK. If you like Dino's other work, then you'll be instantly comfortable with Asesino, in a familiarity-breeds-contempt fashion. Don't expect any surprises."