Gutterskull - Crawling In Disgust
VRK - Filhos Da Ira
Our fellow maestro of Slavonian grim ambiance Talog has taken up the guitars in good company with another heavy-metal act called VRK. The limited-to-100-copies-cassette-release is a kind of a split with two mini-albums on each side. It´s punk, grim, proto-black metal/death-metal-sound, heavy, fast, and filled with utter doom and dread!. So be careful!
Talog´s Gutterskull act kick-starts the album with Silent Avenger, Disaster Never Ends and Bleed which immediately takes you back to that early Celtic Frost meets Death Strike-sound. Lots of fresh trashy drums and crusty 80s punk-metal guitars.
The fourth track Undead Torment adds a touch of doom-metal ála Pentagram to the mix while maintaining the proto sound of extreme metal. Really love the sound of the guitars, love the vibes with the heavily distorted guitar sound.
The fifth track Darkest Armies is all about rampaging and blood-soaked orcs on some Warhammer Fantasy-cover. Aggressive and filled with hatred without a doubt.
The sixth track Terror Of Tomorrow is a pulsating creature of epic-punishment!
All-in-all... Gutterskull is a charming retro-thing with tons of reasons to dig it. Think back to the 80s when this kind of music was.. really disliked. And good-mannered people associated it with ritual-murdering Satanists who would love to kidnap your dog and take it to a hellish orgy of beer... Oh, Dear!. No matter what, it sounds great and it has lots of reasons to drink while listening to it!
VRK is another kind of wild animal. More of an industrial sort of sound? Imagine a more electronic-based metal band or early Godflesh with quicker drums. They start off with Lixo Nuclear, focus on the creepy vocals!... Interesting and quite unique.
The second track Os Vermes Davoragem follows up on the claustrophobic angst-attack-sound. The sound of the guitars/bass/strings is almost a static humming sound than the sound of... well strings!
Third track Ritual De Morte E Destrucom (Gez!)... Is not just an evil track, but a track that is just.... well evil. The sound of everything... Strangely aggressive and strangely... laid-back at the same time?.
The fourth track has a lovely epic church-organ going on, so we are pretty much bound to have the devil showing up and pissing all over the damn place!... Just for the laughs. No kidding kids, this track could also catch the attention of dungeon-synth fans!. And maybe who loved the epic church-organ moments when an act like Blood Axis did them. A lovely and sincere dark track!
Rest of the VRK-material kicks ass and well worth the exploring. Could be perfect if they were supporting MZ.412?!. A lovely mixture between electronic-based black-metal with industrial elements.
Fxxxxxx love this split. It gets to the point and it gets the job done. It´s primitive but still sounding like a real bad-ass-job through your speakers. It sounds like the real hellish-deal, and this deal is a good deal kid!!. Pure proto-BM/Death-metal sound!
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