THE KILL is a longstanding Grindcore group out of Australia. They have been busy since their inception, releasing 15 partial/full albums. "Kill Them All" is their second full-length album, and contains 19 tracks. Grindcore is an interesting sub-genre of Heavy Metal, being about as extreme a sound as there can be. Metal music has always been about pushing limits. In the 1970's, bell bottom jeans were all the rage, and you couldn't find straight legged jeans anywhere. As Denis Leary said, the only way you could be cooler than the next guy was to get bigger bell-bottoms. I liken this analogy to where Grindcore music falls in the Metal spectrum, and this album is no exception. If the opening track "Insults" is any indication of what I am talking about, you will understand. At three minutes long, it is the longest song on the album. Rocket fueled blast beats are heaped overtop of shred picking riffs, and angst ridden vocals that could be heard for several towns away. Stylistically, it is a blend of old school Punk, Thrash and Hardcore, fusing together with impossible energy and drive. The attack is absolutely relentless, and at times it is close to registering as more noise than music per se. Look to the instrumental passages in "Heavy Metal Professional" to hear what I mean. In the category of purely pounding brutality, "Holiday's Over" fills that niche nicely. I think this is what it would sound like if Satan took up musical composition. It reels over and over like a piece of industrial machinery that went off the rails but won't stop running. "Public Execution" sounds exactly as described, and I find myself unable to imagine what a moss pit would be like when this band performs live. Amidst the party that will not stop, "The Pulsating Feast" has some more discernable riffing where the chord progressions hint at a dark fury, as if you opened the door to a room that was locked away with centuries of angry spirits and now they are unleashed. "Burn Craigieburn. Burn" sounds like a personal vendetta gone too far. I don't know who Cragie is, but I would not want this much hatred heaped on me! "Pit Victim" is an aptly titled song and I believe this could be applied universally to anyone in the pit when THE KILL is in town. At the end of this listening experience you haven't been thoroughly beat up and violated beyond recognition, you are probably already a corpse. It is true to style-as pure as the driven snow, and will not disappoint fans of this genre.