RBOTD #204: Age Nor Defields
Goofcore
https://www.metal-archives.com/band/view/id/3540470876
Country: Brazil
Location: Baixada Santista
Genre: thrash metal/crossover/hardcore
Formed in: 2015
Status: Active
By the Numbers
Age Nor Defields is the:
57th band formed in the 2010s
Eighth band from Brazil
108th band that is active
Its genre tags have been seen:
Thrash: 41 times
Crossover: Four times
Hardcore: Four times
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Trifecta Tracker
Age Nor Defields has not achieved the trifecta.
A band can achieve the trifecta by titling a song after itself on a self-titled release. Iron Maiden's "Iron Maiden" on 1980's Iron Maiden is an example of the trifecta.
Huh. Age Nor Defields is a Brazilian quintet fusing "Crossover Thrash and Grindcore, with experimentals." I usually accept whatever the band tags themselves as because, I mean, I'm not in the band. I wasn't at multiple years-worth of practices and recording sessions. I wasn't in the van arguing about the band's direction while a member kept driving, making us listen to Rush's Test For Echo for the 800th time instead of pulling over to a rest stop. Age Nor Defields knows what it's going for. It knows its influences far better than I ever will. But, every once in a bit, I'll read a liner note description and think, "…you sure?" For instance, grindcore? Not hearing it, unless we're talking, like, Macabre or a concussion-addled Ghoul that forgot how to surf rock, and even then, that's a stretch. To me, Age Nor Defields sounds like a goofier All Out War.
Not a burn! I'm not swinging "goofy" as a pejorative. I think that's the vibe Age Nor Defields was aiming for, a Zappa-esque approach to sneaking the message in around the back while the jester is front and center. "Mongahell is a mostly political record," the Bandcamp liner notes state. "Mixed and mastered by Hugo Lopes, its lyrics addresses several themes: protest against the government, anti-fascism, class consciousness, existentialism and random comic themes, always making use of acid humor and provocations." Cool. Love it. I'm extremely here for everything up to "random comic themes." Problem: I don't like a lot of random comic moments in my music. Glad the lyrics are in Portuguese.
Look, I've listened to way too much Good Clean Fun. I borked my brain with goofball gags ages ago. I just…can't do it anymore. I'm old. The world sucks. I am not in the goofball mood. Be that as it may, I'll admit that Age Nor Defields does its goofiness with earnest exuberance that goes a long way. It gives the band a spark that pushes it ahead of copycat acts. That is to say, while Mongahell sounds like something I would've picked off of Aversionline in 2002, it's not, like, Dorylus, even though it similarly could've been an opener for a pre-big Avenged Sevenfold at a Huntington Beach matinee. Again, it's that spark: It feels like the band is having fun during every second of this 25-minute LP.
So, yeah, my nice-person take is that Age Nor Defields gives this stuff socks. It has a good message. I am definitely never thinking about this again, but we've covered way, way worse in RBOTD. Grind it ain't. Goofy it is. Not a slight, could be good if you're feeling it.
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