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(record review)THE ELECTRIC DEAD-“The Electric Dead”

Canadian trio The Electric Dead finally released their long awaited debut album.

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The Electric Dead play a mixture of horrorpunk, doom metal with some rock and blues influences and their music sounds pretty dirty and greasy. The album contains 9 epic songs with horror lyrics and when I listened to this album it sounded like walking through a dark swamp, dampy and scary with some creature following me persistently from darkness.

There are some interesting solutions in song structures and even some keyboard background like “Lucifers Blues”. Some songs reminded me of Danzig like the slower one “Devil in a Dress”. Incredible, but the song “The Mark I Bear” vocally reminded me on James Hetfield. Maybe its just me. My personal favourite on the record is “Me And The Devil”. The songs are mainly uptempo with that sweaty guitar energy holding the reins on you from the beginning until the very end of the album. This is great stuff if you love your horror greasy and doomy.

7/10

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(record review)TERRIBLE OLD MAN-“Fungi From Yuggoth”(MDD Records)

As many of the readers who roam through the pages of this zine know, my all time favorite horror writer is H.P.Lovecraft. I always admired metal bands who were inspired by his works and worlds, and I always tried to find that ultimate band who would put Lovecraft words into melody and blend it in one great whole. Now I found it.

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Terrible Old Man hail from Germany and this is their second full length album and what could I expect from a band who named themselves after one of Lovecraft stories? Frankly, I expected much and I got much. Imagine a band whose every lyric and song evolves and is directly derived from your favorite writer and his work. Well this album contains 10 songs of pure horror packed in melodic up tempo mix of heavy and doom metal but the band is not afraid to venture in some blast beat and faster waters. The vocals are cleanly sung and the singer does a great job. Oh yeah, to add more greatness, I checked the line up of the band and every member of the band is also named after one of the characters from Lovecraftian universe. This is an album that has it all, great music, great lyrics and I am happy I discovered this band.

8/10

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