Category Archives: Reviews

(review) Robby Bloodshed – Running Out of Time

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Robby Bloodshed is in no way stranger to the pages of Kraykulla. This New Jersey based artist has already graced the pages of my zine when I reviewed his last record a while ago. Now, it took two years to prepare the world for releasing these monster babies. Robby Bloodshed does such fantastic music, his work is original horror punk rock, ultra melodic and having that vibe I miss so much in nowadays scene. It reminds me of the original work Nim Vind does with his music, yet they are both different each in his own unique way. This record owes equal to Misfits or Blitzkid legacy as also the glamour of Queen. From the anthem like The Last Grin to piano pop infused Dying Is Easy, this is a record that just invites you and makes you listening to it again and again. Also, Robby paid beautiful homage to late and never forgotten Freddy Mercury with superb rendition of It´s a Hard Life on this record.

The lyrics are not horror per se, like in many other horrorpunk bands, but they are rather personal, every boy and ghoul can relate to in the pictures this lyrics provide and some of them really made my skin crawl with goosebumps how good they are. Almost like they remind you that real horrors await in real life you have to face and deal with it every day. The vocal lines, melodies and backing vocal harmonies are sweet and take you to another level of mind scape and provide for you a sweet refuge while this record lasts. This record is a keeper, from light Everything to night colored Fly By Night it is too hard to say which my personal favorites are because this whole release is probably contender for one of the best this year.

https://robbybloodshed.bandcamp.com

(review) The Inhumans – Double Feature

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The Inhumans from Illinois released their new two songs single. Zombies ate my neighbors is a straightforward fast horrorpunk bomb with nice melody and what I love about this single is raw, almost rehearsal old school production taking me back to the glorious times of early nineties demo tape trading. The vocals are great, melodic yet not cheesy, backing vox harmonies are done with style and both songs are simple but in your face horrorpunk. I wanna be a monster is my personal favorite and a bit better but that is due to my personal taste. Can´t wait for the longer material with more songs.

https://theinhumans.bandcamp.com/

(review) Lautreamont – The Cult Of Grinning Martyrs

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Lautreamont from Russia are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine. I already listened and wrote a review for the band´s debut album back in 2018.

Now, this Russian duo consisting of Wrath and Dread deliver their second full length album. This new record could be called a concept, but it is also not a concept record. This one is inspired by Thomas Ligotti´s work Conspiracy against human race, also poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Isidore Ducasse. This 7 song album has a dark, almost touchable atmosphere of thick black/death metal, apocalyptic in its tale of human puppet existence and nothingness.

From the sheer ferociousness of blast beats and destruction of Broken Claws to more melodic and almost cold and space like dissonances of Thanatophobia, one of my highlights on this record, Lautreamont deliver their story with conviction, coldness and relentless march. I am amazed how clean vocals in some song parts can also sound cold and atmospheric and delive coup de grace to the listener as in amazing Brotherhood Of Suffering. Unpersons is a lesson in brutality and quality blackened death metal with blasting brutality and darkness just oozing from your speakers. One more song that I must mention is the title song, being epic soundtrack to your demise, with changing tempo, sharp and brutal riffs, but also total lack of humanity being cold and void.

This second effort is a step further from the debut. Great record.