STORMCROW – ‘ENSLAVED IN DARKNESS’
Stormcrow’s ‘Enslaved In Darkness’ EP, released back in 2005 on No Options Records. A classic of US Stenchcore and a total monolith to miserable DETH! Salvos of muscular, primordial, massive Guitars and foreboding Bass form stoic, forlorn melodies of warring death, strafing chugging Crust Thrash riffs mount a rhythm section of devastating simplicity, Metal and Punk boiled down to their most furtive and mercurial and combined in the cast, powerful dynamic rhythms with an organic looseness and a barreling heft akin to the heights of Bolt Thrower, simultaneously soaring and crestfallen leads charge headlong into withering fire, bellowed low crust vocal command – moments of metallic acoustic to draw breath from the fog of war, tempos grinding to a chugging mid paced cruise after fire is exchanged across the martial, punk as fukk Drum work. Stormcrow also manages to pull off that absolutely hopeless, rain swept atmosphere of misery that makes Axegrinder’s ‘Rise of the Serpent Men’ so potent and terrible. This particular sword will keep sharp a fucking long time yet.
Update – Brainsand has remastered and re-released ‘Enslaved In Darkness’ on wax, snag yourself a copy below!
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