The Body might be a duo, but on records, they gather recruits to help them stretch and blur genre lines that a lot of metal bands wouldn’t touch, having teamed with Haxan Cloak, Thou, Krieg and the Assembly Of Light Choir, among others. They’ve got a couple new records out: One is a collaboration with grindcore extraordinaires Full Of Hell, and on No One Deserves Happiness, they once again worked with Assembly singer Chrissy Wolpert. Both are standouts in an already prolific discography.
On One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache, Full Of Hell pushes the Body to tempos that the doom-metal twosome rarely attempts. Noise is an oft-used tool in both bands’ arsenals,and it’s doled out liberally within the masterful cacophony here. And while there’s no Hole cover like the album title might suggest, there is a weirdo take on Leonard Cohen’s “The Butcher.” No One Deserves Happiness is even better. Touted as the band’s “pop” record, it takes forlorn vocals and obliterated 808 beats, filtered through the dirge for which the Body is known.
—Matt Sullivan
