{"id":59662,"date":"2025-08-11T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:24:09","slug":"psycho-frame-salvation-laughs-in-the-face-of-a-grieving-mother-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59662\/","title":{"rendered":"Psycho-Frame – Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Deathcore doesn\u2019t give a shit. There was a moment when bands like Lorna Shore and Slaughter to Prevail attempted to make deathcore more accessible to other metal fans, incorporating blackened\/symphonic textures or nu-metal influences. However terrible, solid, milquetoast, or well-intentioned you found it, that\u2019s not the spirit of deathcore. Psycho-Frame has steadily been building a fanbase around their particularly unhinged take on deathcore with the release of 2023 EPs Remote God Seeker and Automatic Death Protocol, and we\u2019re finally faced with a full-length debut: Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother. But don\u2019t expect heavyhandedness \u2013 expect just heavy. Dumb heavy. Basically, the music for the sellout. Get those fists swingin\u2019, Hot Topic frequenters! We\u2019re goin\u2019 to the mall.<\/p>\n

Psycho-Frame embodies a trend in deathcore that is layered in nostalgia. Fearing that the style has lost its teeth, bands like the nation-spanning six-piece embrace the days of MySpace (think old-school Chelsea Grin or Bring Me the Horizon). It\u2019s raw, groovy, and devastating, brandishing a brand wavering between thick-ass breakdowns settling on the ocean floor and lightning-fast blastbeats and unhinged technical thrills. Psycho-Frame otherwise benefits from a two-vocal attack, with Mike Sugars relying on a tough Frankie Palmeri bark attack while Jonathan Whittle offers fierce shrieks, horrific bellows, and the occasional pig squeal. It\u2019s big, dumb fun that doesn\u2019t overstay its welcome, embracing a savage edge contrary to contemporary acts off the same ilk: the rawness of Killing of a Sacred Deer or the melodic technicality of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Psycho-Frame emerges as the elite, its loud and ouchy production amped to louder and ouchier, its vocal attack barbaric and ominous, and its songwriting whiplash-inducing. It\u2019s everything you love \u2013 and loathe \u2013 about deathcore.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s little nuance in Salvation Laughs \u2013 if it\u2019s thoughtful songwriting and careful construction you\u2019re after, Psycho-Frame ain\u2019t it. It doesn\u2019t have a lick of the tragedy its title implies because, remember, deathcore doesn\u2019t give a shit. It recalls the chaos of This is Exile-era Whitechapel, The Cleansing-era Suicide Silence, or self-titled Chelsea Grin in its chunky viciousness and stonewalled rigidity. Neck-snapping tempo shifts are a norm, downtempo Black Tongue chugdowns assaulting your ears one second before ravaging them with ripping blastbeats and shredding riffs. Riffiness is a trait not often expounded upon by deathcore, but it appears often throughout Salvation Laughs, giving an unexpected head-bobbing groove and pinch harmonics (\u201cBlueprints for Idol Genocide,\u201d \u201cEndless Agonal Devotion\u201d), jaw-dropping fretboard wizardry that recalls Beneath the Massacre and pairs neatly with numbskull density (\u201cApocalypse Through Lysergic Possession\u201d), while slam\u2019s gurgling lurch a la Ingested adds nice sonic depravity (\u201cFilleted and Fucked,\u201d \u201cStill Water Salvation\u201d). Each member offers his best, the dual shrieks and roars commanding charisma, the guitars offering flaying technicality and caveman knuckle-dragging meatheadedness equally, bass holding up the sound amid the fray, and drums retain a sharp metallic ring that adds to the unhinged quality Psycho-Frame possesses.<\/p>\n

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For the same reasons, some will love Psycho-Frame, others will understandably loathe it. In many ways, it feels like the insanity of mid-2000s deathcore distilled into a bullying thirty-eight minutes. It\u2019s relentless, it\u2019s over-the-top, and perfect to make frowny faces at while you windmill your way through the pit. That being said, some parts of the album are guiltier than others: when groove dominates, the result is an insane little number, but when that\u2019s toned down to channel Suicide Silence, it sounds pitifully stale (\u201cThe Portal,\u201d \u201cBLACK_WAVE II\u201d). Furthermore, there are short-lived spoken word samples scattered throughout the album, which provide more of a blush than the creepiness factor they are attempting to instill. But apart from the nitpicks, for nearly all the reasons mentioned in the paragraph above, Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother can be the thorn in a metalhead\u2019s side \u2013 Psycho-Frame is truly an apt representative of deathcore.<\/p>\n

For better or worse, Psycho-Frame is deathcore, and it doesn\u2019t pretend to be anything else. It\u2019s big and dumb, overly loud and obnoxious, with enough groove, rawness, and wonky tricks to carry its dual vocal attack into something resembling enjoyment. It\u2019s a low-ceiling, low-floor situation, because Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother can either bring some fun into your day or utterly ruin it. I had fun with Psycho-Frame because of its refreshing simplicity and relentless brutality \u2013 but it\u2019s still a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n

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Rating: 3.0\/5.0
DR: N\/A | Format Reviewed:
Label: Sharptone Records<\/a>
Websites: psychoframedc.bandcamp.com<\/a> | psychoframe.com<\/a> | facebook.com\/psychoframedeathcore<\/a>
Releases Worldwide: July 25th, 2025<\/p>\n

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