Nashville based trio, to find some info about YAUTJA is a painful trial (even using internet), and being treated as the new great name on USA underground by some sites for the Blastcore (once and for all, stop the mania of creating new labels, fuck all this shit!), and "Songs of Descent" is a good album. But I really can't understand why this great commotion.

No doubt they're a good band, with a harsh and aggressive music, something between Grindcore, American Hardcore and Death Metal with a more experimental and technical insight. It's very good, with great and extreme vocals, fine guitar work, and good rhythmic basis, but they still have a way to go into the scene.

Mikey Allred (INTER ARMA, ACCROSS TUNDRAS, HELLBENDER) produced the album in the Dark Art Studios, and we can say that the record really is abrasive, giving aggressiveness to them without making all instruments sounding like a fuzz mass. It's good, indeed.

Their best songs: the ferocious "Denihilist", the destructive "Blinders" (a perfect mix between Grindcore and Hardcore music), "Tar and Blindness" (hear the very oiled work from distorted bass guitar), the long and slower "Faith Resigned" (their best song, with great vocals, killing riffs and bass and drums working a very interesting and good way, in a more slower tempo song), the instigating and complex "A Crawl", and the wonderful "Of Descent".

Great work, indeed, but not label them as some kind of "savior of music". This can harm their work.

Oh, yes: maybe the information about their lineup is wrong, but this writer had a real hard time to find it.