2025 Willowtip Records (CD/LP)
www.willowtip.com
2/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS
I wanted to like this. The name is cool, the song titles were cool, everything about it was cool. I was let down. This is a tepid toilet bowl of an effort, devoid of almost anything that I like in death metal. Sure, it's well-played and spotlessly produced, but the songs moving like molasses, without any forward motion, really hurts it. It might as well be doom metal. Doom-slam? Perhaps they've stumbled onto a new genre that's just no good. Everything the band does seems slow, even when it's fast, even during blasts. Also, fuck bass drops. There's a few scattered throughout this record. Sure, are there a few hooks that caught my attention? Yeah. Almost every record has one or two. This is heavy and brutal, sure. But so is a lot of other music. The pingy snare gets on my nerves, too. This just isn't my bag.
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