Thursday, October 9, 2014

THE DEAD GOATS - Ferox (2014)

Meet Thy Final Death!


This demo came to me together with the previous The Dead Goats title. And after so many pleasant moments with the children of the fungus and their bizarre biology, the whole content of “Ferox” isn’t a surprise for me. Modestly released on cdr, with xeroxed cover, it is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies (also the tape is available with the limitation of 100 copies). Musically this Bialystok travel agency offers old school death metal with the stamp of mighty Sweden. As compared to the previous stuff, there are two intros (one from old “Dracula” movie, it precedes the first song and it works here really good!), the titles became shorter and there is no such a song like “Children of the Fungus”. The rest is without a change. Speaking of the production way, “Ferox” has been recorded during two days only, but it has a proper force to devastate my speakers.

Hm… the rest is without a change… Yeah, because the new tunes are also played in a killer way, again served by simple means, again with an ancient touch, again without any redundant musical notes. Just three straightforward shots. And all right, let’s see, the last piece has rather slow tempo, but its heaviness is really overwhelming the senses. And only after three minutes, the goats wake up to present some hysteric kind of vokills. Then we have a comeback to these marching passages. In turn, “Bonesower” has a beautiful relevancy to Entombed, especially in slower rhythms played after 3:05 – ah, I just love it! Generally the band has a specific ‘lightness’ in creating such recognizable tunes. And it refers to the guitar layers and the chorus parts: both things breathe together giving a deathly piece of metal. But what a pity! “Ferox” has somewhat less than fourteen minutes only, in addition two minutes are taken by mentioned introduction. Demo gets my mind unobstructed, causing serious beautiful damages. It runs too fast, but it makes me push the button ‘play’ once again to feed me. However I look into the future hopefully. Soon, by Selfmadegod label, another goatish anthem will be thrown to the underground viscera. It’s time for a 7” split with Revel in Flesh. I started to count the days out…

But now the bonesower is knocking at my door’s haven… The final death is approaching… 

85/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli

(written on October, 2014)

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