HORNS & HOOVES – ‘MORBID LUST’

Perverted sacrosanct Speed/Black/Thrash Metal from New York, a side project of the band Spite. ‘Morbid Lust’ is a liturgical text of  ripping speed metal trill-heavy riffing, fat Bass underpinning the eerie ire of drumming, and uproariously demented cackling vocal emanations from the blackened soul dripping with STDs, hellhammering away in strange and vulgar forms with mid-paced motorcycle booted hard rocking, full throttle poserscything thrash and rollicking double bass passages, with crescendos of songs reaching catchy, invasive orgasmic peaks before descending into spent ruin. Dionysian indeed. A whole heap of drunken, sextanic debauchery, uproariously deliciously melodic Black/Speed/Thrash possessed with the Geist of evil!

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SPIRIT POSSESSION SELF TITLED

Spirit Possession’s Self Titled full length delivers the lunatic promise of their excellent demo – shrieking, hysterical Black Metal virulent with Speed/Thrash/Heavy Metal influences, menacing glowering poltergeist energy aura of boundless possessive savagery!  Trill and treble drenched Guitars and killer Bass work form unorthodox, mind bending Thrash tinged riffs in obstinately rocking arrangements, at once angular, dissonant and mindlessly catchy, fiercely conjured Drums display similar unorthodoxy and chaoticism amidst straight forward hammering grooves and rocking the fuck out, a summoning of upheave vocal glossolalia dribbling with madness and dripping with delicious delay decay, haywire synths and noise pieces fomenting madness and weird unsettling auras. Sounds similar to the works of Funereal Presence, Craft, Negative Plane and Aura Noir, for reference, although Spirit Possession’s particular angular edges and incensed vocal delirium are all their own. Excellent.

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WITCHTRIAL DEMO 2017

Archaic Black/Speed Metal from hell played by devil worshipping Punk vets. This demo reminds me of Midnight in lots of ways –  I’m certain that Witchtrial would share with Midnight many of the same influences in Venom, Bathory, GBH and Motorhead, and assemble a similarly wild and violent throwback sound comprised of these primordial styles. Bombastic, swaggering Metal of Black, rolling Bass rumbles, storming Drums from the cavern (or rehearsal space), cool vocal screech & warble attack, Black ‘n’ Roll rockers with a shit load of attitude and memorable riffs. Headbangin’ Hellfire, covenant crushing sinful spite! Lots of mid paced smashers to get pissed up to. I’ll be checking out their self titled 12″ EP next.

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