Centenary – …Where No Lives Matter (Review and Interview)
A dark creature arises from the post-apocalyptic wastes.
A dark creature arises from the post-apocalyptic wastes.
Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.
You have to love a talented band that believes in itself and the music that they play.
Where in my top five will this one fall?
The split is a cohesive whole, sort of different respective takes on darkness and futility.
There is a malicious streak that shows forth here in ominous riffs, there in embedded grind, and yet again in ambient samples, which all serve to drag the listener by their exposed entrails into the abyss that is this album.
From the time the album starts to the time it finishes you are bombarded with the sounds of what can be described as a chaos that meshes really well together.
An interview with Full Scale Riot.
It’s not everyday that you stumble onto something that growls of war, conquest, and death.