On the other hand, the band also prove themselves capable of kicking things into vicious black-thrashing gear (augmented by spitfire solos) to let cruel mayhem reign. It’s your first clue that the band have a fiendish talent for cooking up bracing riffs and dynamic movements, a talent that becomes ever more apparent as the album proceeds.įrom the rude and crude stage names and song titles to the Archgoat-like primitivism of the music, the album is certifiably blasphemous and brutal. The music in that first track changes in gripping fashion, eerie and ominous at first, then imperialistically brutal (but still unearthly, thanks to ringing bells), and then barbarically scathing. There she voices a fervent melodic chant in Spanish, though later in the album she also growls like a subterranean hell beast and howls like a rabid wolf. She opens the band’s debut album Feathers Fall To Flames with a gripping performance in the opening track “Milenio De La Crucifixión”. The vocalist of this Arizona band has a great pseudonym - Diabolical Fuckwitch Of The Black Flame - and she also has a helluva voice. Further fair warning: I haven’t had time to write thorough reviews, just some very broad and possibly superficial impressions, just a come-on for you to do your own listening. As I hope you’ll agree, the following two albums (and one EP) have other qualities that make them noteworthy.įair warning: on the spectrum of black/death metal, most of these lean more in the direction of death. But it’s not just the nastiness that hooked me to these releases. Because it’s my habit to impulsively share whatever I happen to be into, I’m sharing some of that with you here. In rooting around among new releases over the past week I got myself into some pretty nasty and gnarly music.
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