Sakatat - Bir Devrin Sonu (2012)

Delivering their pummeling ‘full-length’ debut “Bir Devrin Sonu”, today we have one of Turkey’s most brutal bands named Sakatat. Claiming to have political ideas behind their perplexingly brutal music, this band manages to deliver the shortest full-length release ever: eight minutes long.

Spanning eight tracks, this ultra brutal and ultra fast release has the feeling of something so intense that you won’t even feel it’s too short. With all the lyrics and song names in Turkish, we can’t really appreciate the message behind the music, but we can say that each short tracks is as brutal as they come, reminding us of the old Agathocles, Dahmer and such bands.

Every little song features furious drumming, high-octane riffing and insane vocals, everything that makes a release of this kind very appealing for fans of the brutal and intense. With some Punk-ish elements, this music is not just extreme brutality and it has some cool musical parts that go beyond the ‘pounding at the instruments’ approach that most new bands seem to like.

The closer “Tahammul Etmek Kabul Etmek Demek” is our favorite track in this release, mostly due to the super catchy combination of shrieks and growls and the underlying guitar riffs. This song also happens to be the longest one in the album clocking around 1:52 minutes. Some people might call this release unnecessary and a waste of money due to the fact of a fully pressed CD that only contains… eight minutes of music, but we have to say that we would have been well served and satisfied to pay money for such a brutal and hellish release.

Release: June 2012

Genre: Grindcore

Country: Turkey