EL THULE
Green Magic
(Heavy Birth)

HALF MAKESHIFT
Omen
(Profound Lore)

MOSS
Sub Templum
(Rise Above)

DETRITUS
Fractured
(Ad Noiseam)

FROGSKIN / TAUNT
Split
(Streaks)

DEADBIRD
Twilight Ritual

(At a Loss)

THE ROTTED
Get Dead Or Die Trying 

(Metal Blade)

MORE REVIEWS

Yeehaw motherfuckers!. More sludge doom to get our hands and, especially our minds, dirty. First up in this split 7” by Streaks Records is Finland’s Frogskin. The song included here is as far as I can tell their second recording since their 2005 demo and features a very acidic sound. Main and most popular reference, the super mighty Iron Monkey. Surely, there is more to Frogskin than that and they prove it by rudely offering over seven minutes of the most disgusting sounds out there. For the better half of it, Frogskin just bashes away intermittently; two giant thumps, two colossal fat ass bottom guitar strums and some grandfatherly vocals the likes of which haven’t been this scary since the Wizard of Oz. It’s all very disturbing and dandy until the second part of “Squirm” kicks in; from then on things only get more distressing with feedback taking the spotlight and the whole thing starts disintegrating by bits… Tasty stuff.

Taunt on the other hand are even more caustic and rudimentary. They are a German two piece and their songs “B.L.K.” clocks in at over six minutes. It should have been longer because for the first two minutes it’s just a build up. You know something bad is looming in the nearby horizon but what is it? More doom sludge from Taunt; crude vocals, a basic thick guitar chord that’s strummed and let for distortion to squeeze its last sound, only to have the axeman strumming it again…and again….and again. Great stuff. As far as I can tell, Taunt only have one other recording; a split with the band Stumm. Auspicious stuff. Looking forward to hearing more.

Frogskin MySpace

Taunt Blog


 

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