Everyone knows that Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein played the guitar with horrorpunk legends and godfathers The Misfits. Following the departure from The Misfits, he formed Gorgeous Frankenstein, band that mixed horrorpunk with metal and out of the ashes of that band came Doyle, new band and this is their second album. Almost all of the 13 songs on this record are four years old and the material on this album was created at almost same time as the first album. I didnt like the first album much, it had some good songs but this one is a killer! Featuring excellent musicianship by Doyle, Alex Wolfman Story(Cancerslug) on vocals, Brandon Strate(They Live) and Brandon Pertzborn(Black Flag, Revolution Mother), this record is one metal horror bomb which you are compelled to listen again and again! From the melodic opener “Kiss Me As We Die” featuring guest vocals by Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy to the more Cancerslug-like “Witchcraft” over thrash metal attack “King Of The Undead” and punkish “Run For Your Life”, this album has no fillers and it is one of the better albums that I have listened this year in this horrorpunk/metal genre! Check it out!
Who would have thought that this is already twelfth studio album for these Floridian deathsters. Formed as a side project for then Cannibal Corpse singer Chris Barnes, they evolved in one of the top death metal acts in the world. They had some lineup changes but the only constant in the band vocalist Chris Barnes kept them together through the years. There are 12 new songs on this record done in a new lineup with the new drummer. The lyrical themes are gore and horror stuff as always but in my opinion, the music is the problem. The music is typical death metal, a bit fast blastbeats and then a bit slow and midtempo. I loved and still love the first two records, “Haunted” and “Warpath” because they were not your typical death metal. Nowadays, this band is only one of the many death metal bands that sound the same and they kinda drowned in mediocrity or maybe lost ideas how to make great stuff like they did in the past. Not a bad record, but only average.
Here is the eleventh studio album by Danzig, or tenth with the original material if you wish to be precise. I think there is no need to talk about Danzig career because with so many decades spent in the music scene, first as singer for The Misfits, later with Samhain and then with his band Danzig, I think every kid knows who he is. The new album came out on AFM Records and consists of nine songs. Why nine? Well, because nine is magic number used in Satanism and old Glenn is still a Satanist isnt he? The songs are in his dark metal way, completed with excellent trademark Danzig vocals, which inspired so many horrorpunk and psychobilly vocalists all over the globe. But, there is only one original Danzig. The songs are usually in the slower rythms, but heavy and they hit the mark as they are supposed to. The top highlights of the album are “Devil on Hwy 9”, “The Witching Hour” and “Skulls and Daisies”. This album is good but nothing special, if you loved Danzig works prior to this album you will also love this one. If not, this one will not make you love his art and music.
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