Total Fucking Destruction - Hater

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Total Fucking Destruction – Hater

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Rich Hoak is the wild card in Brutal Truth, a drummer who is one part street prophet and one part Animal from The Muppet Show. Total Fucking Destruction is where the grind lifer lets the shit hit the fan in earnest. He pounds his kit like an enraged simian, screams like Charlie Sheen on a crack bender, and rants about the imminent apocalypse. He’s perfected his end-of-times sermons into art on Hater (Translation Loss / Bones Brigade, 2011), by far TFD’s most accomplished and interesting album.

Hoak reminds me of Charlie Frost, the character played by Woody Harrelson in 2012. Frost is a backwoods hermit who lives in a trailer and warns about the imminent apocalypse. As volcanoes erupt and level Yellowstone National Park, he runs to a mountaintop and embraces the end like his long-lost mother. Listening to Hater makes you feel the same way. You accept humanity’s imminent doom with wry optimism, even joy. You laugh at the futility of it all.

TFD’s last album Peace, Love, and Total Fucking Destruction had strong moments, but Hater feels like a complete statement. “Meat Without Feet” mixes grind, comedy, and groove. “Time Theft”, released late last year as a YouTube video, is the first TFD track you can hum. Even comical songs like “Repeat Repeatedly” add to the mix. Marvel comics illustrator Mo Moussa, who also designed the cover of Pentagram’s upcoming album, provides a masterful illustration of nuclear bombs painted with happy faces and peace signs. It’s a stunning visual realization of Hoak’s year-zero banter.

Hater is a fantastic grind album and marks the moment when Hoak morphed from Brutal Truth’s backbeat into a musician who can stand on his own.

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