
Sicarius – Serenade of Slitting Throats
They may represent a new leaner, meaner strain of USBM than what we’ve seen before. Bold words about a band on their debut full length, but Serenade of Slitting Throats is that impressive.
They may represent a new leaner, meaner strain of USBM than what we’ve seen before. Bold words about a band on their debut full length, but Serenade of Slitting Throats is that impressive.
The US quartet takes their time to carve you apart, working away at you psyche with any number of torturous implements, leaving you changed and not knowing how you got there.
Civilizing is the soundtrack to the slow, but inevitable decay of humanity, reveling in the prospect of this demise.
Unrelentingly dark, massively brutal, surprisingly beautiful, intensely engaging, and boldly unpretentious, Bloodstrike have created a surprise masterpiece that grows on me with each listen.
In the final analysis, Dead Hawk has created a space outside of music, and possibly outside of our reality, in which to provoke passion and angst in our psyche.
It’s raw, it’s not the best quality, but what you can hear in the mud is blackened punk-thrash brilliance.
While the two sides are noticeably different, they do make a coherent whole, as both projects reach outside the box for their sound.
They feature more extreme influences than ever before, weaving elements of black and death metal into their modern metal sound.