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Dipping
their cheese sticks in various extreme musical subgenres
comes this antagonistic Wichita Falls four piece.
Surprisingly, it’s not just that they feel like genre
trotting, clearly, they have studied their stuff.
Initially, not sure why, I was expecting them to play
some sort of sludge doom metal, so ultimately I was
taken aback and thrown against the floor by the
ever-changing grind rock of “Steel Wheels” which coolly
manages to pack more finger work in one minute and
thirty seconds than dick less porn in an hour and a
half.
“A New Low”
goes the better part of three minutes mixing hardcore with
belligerent grindcore at a retard-o rock pace. The song couldn’t
be over without the face melting conjugation of a guitar solo
and some muscle blowing legwork. From afar Lycergus takes the
shape of a math metal band, but mainly because their songs,
though usually under three minutes, bounce genres like their
little feet are on fire.
“Contagion
of Panic” has a killer black doom metal feel to it. It drags and
retorts itself. Then it coils only to dynamically transform
itself into a hectic death metal tune. Impressive. It goes to
show the latent talent in the band. That they are able to
spread all these ideas evenly through the rest of the material
says plenty. Now all they need to do is concentrate in what they
know, polish some of the excesses or take them even further and
dish out a better produced record. The drum sound was way weak.
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