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What
the hell is happening here? There was a cool idea on the
first track. And It seemed as if the song was gaining
steam when all of a sudden the song just got cut off. If
it was a mistake, that’s hardly forgivable for a
relatively unknown band in their very first public
recording. If it was a conscious decision,
well, then we need to reevaluate who is involved in the
decision making process of the band. The sudden stop
caught me off guard and crumbled my expectations back
to zero. The riff was cool. The ramped up short riff
that followed was a nice accent. It sounded like stoner with a
sprinkle of Satan. But the second cut “Defending the
Tree” is more of the same. The same riff basically, only
dragged to hell and smeared with blackened sludge
vocals. Did I say that the riff was awesome?
Monkeypriest
say thanks to Orthodox in the liner notes and the label is named
Feretro, which is Spanish for ‘casket’. I think I get the theme.
Monkeys imitate humans. ‘You are just a monkey’, that means that
you are more like sheep. Following the trends. Repeating what’s
been done. Priests are definitely sheep. They repeat the word of
the ‘lord’ over and over and over. In the same sense, this
Spanish band hammers these corrosive riffs until we are left
spent. Like Orthodox, there is something utterly dark about the
music of Monketpriest. Unlike Orthodox, Monkeypriest keep their
experimentation down to absurdly halting a song.
Past the
impromptu of the first song and what we are left with is with
three solid tracks of doom sludge of the highest caliber. The
riffage is dirty. Nasty shit. The bass just hangs and swings
over you like a pendulum. The guitars are straight up simple.
Chords that shake your around. The cymbals never stop splashing
but then, the guitars drag some more. The vocals appear here and
there. More there than here and they sound quite necro. The cool
thing about this type of vocals is that you don’t really notice
accents. And finally, on the last track the tempo is picked up
and the ante is upped. Kinda like the dude that’s been courteous
all night but before leaving the party decides to repeatedly
kick you in the face.
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