With a sound that combines a myriad of metallic styles, it's been quite difficult to link Soilent Green to one specific subgenre -- one minute they're riffing and roaring away a la Pantera, the next they're offering up death metal tempos. So despite their sonic melting pot, it's widely agreed that the group has been a champion of extreme metal for some time, as evidenced by any of their brutal releases for Relapse. On their fifth release overall, 2005's Confrontation, the group are still out to slay the competition, and from front to back, few could keep pace with Soilent Green. But whereas two of the group's top influences, Slayer and the aforementioned Pantera, break things up musically from time to time, Soilent Green keep things cranked up to ten (for the most part). As a result, if you're not a die-hard fan of extreme metal, songs start blending into each other very quickly. A few exceptions turn out to be the tracks "Liquor and Cigarettes" and "Paper Cut," which both start off (gasp) in a mellow mode before, of course, collapsing into more over the top rage. ~ Greg Prato
Rovi
米産孤高のグラインダー=ソイレント・グリーンが、4年ぶりとなる新作をドロップ! 投下された瞬間、あたりは狂乱の坩堝ですわ。スラッジーな激音リフが、理性ゼロの獣のように淫欲の限りをやり尽くす。この生々しい惨劇の中には、覚悟をキメて飛び込むしかないっすね。自由奔放すぎる曲展開、その中心で突如フル回転をはじめる激震ブラスト・ビートが、痛みを通り越して快楽に至るほど野蛮に俺をボッコボコにするんさっ!
bounce (C)濁川 洋
タワーレコード(2005年08月号掲載 (P95))