BLOODSHED - Skullcrusher (LEDO TAKAS - 7"EP 2001)
Some time ago I was reviewing
an awesome album from the Swedish band Bloodshed titled “Inhabitants of Dis”.
This is rather little known and very underrated band, but I loved that album a
lot, it impressed me totally. I was searching then for some more recordings
from them and soon I found also the 7”EP “Skullcrusher”. It was released by
Ledo Takas from Lithuania on vinyl, while Code666 (Italy) took care of the CD
version. For 7” vinyl, it’s quite lengthy material, with over 15 minutes of
music, which is really cool. It’s good that musically “Skullcrusher” is also a
worthy recording, what only proves that Bloodshed was not an average,
forgettable group, but better than you would expect!
Anyway, “Skullcrusher” is on
the turntable today… and it is really nice 7”EP. Stylistically it blends death
and black metal, with small advantage of the latter of these styles and with
more rough and harsher sound and playing when compared to the “Inhabitants of
Dis” album. “Skullcrusher” is actually pretty straight forward and merciless
offering, built upon some very rude riffs and often quite fast pace. This is
not a pretty music, let me tell you! It’s sometimes even close to some Mayhem
meets Marduk, etc, no mercy then! The production is quite crude (so unlike to
anything else you’ve heard from Sunlight Studio!), but it fits well such
aggressive and violent death / black metal. And such songs like “Laughter of
Destruction” and “Skullcrusher” are just great; furious, intense and fuckin
brutal. But at the same time such “Let the Bloodshed Begin” is nothing special,
but rather boring song... So, this EP is not quite as excellent as the
mentioned full length album, but still a very decent and solid recording from
criminally underrated band. And I have only one problem with this EP – the
recording quality of the vinyl is not perfect, maybe because of these 15
minutes of music squeezed on a 7” vinyl. Limited to 666 copies it is.
Final rate: 68/100
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