BLOODGUTTER
Death Mountain
(Trollzorn)
37:16min

Call it old school Death Metal with a loudly hearable, grooving BLACK SABBATH vibe on one side of the extremes as well as a dirty, filthy sounding hand full of Crust on the other edge of their sound. The remarkable opening riffs for ‘Rot Awaits’ or the first few seconds in ‘Torture Sacrifice’ are good examples for the obvious influence good ol’ Ozzy and Iommi had on our four Danish fellows. It should be mentioned that all tunes are played with down-tuned guitars and the typical HM2 sound. Early CELTIC FROST might have been an influence for this sound. ENTOMBED and DISMEMBER as well as the dry-sounding BENEDICTION obviously had a massive impact on the musical socialiszion of the band members. Like POSSESSED, SLAYER and several Crust Punk artists did also. So while everything is running nearby the distortion sounds, the music of BLOODGUTTER profits from frequently changes of the tempo. Songs like the frantically rolling ‘Artillery Supremancy’, ‘Fill The Graves’ or ‘For The Empire’ do all of a sudden turn from dooming sounds into almost blasting drums to midtempo groove and back again. The slowly destroying ‘Whirlwind Of Doom’ remains a bit outstanding. As the songtitle mentions it crushes everything by slowly rolling over the whole place. Generally the guitars are sounding very room filling. Which is totally okay, because the music never gets boring. The variety in the sound and tempo keeps the whole construct organic and alive from start to finish. The trashing ‘Jaws Of Death’ and the bone-breaking ‘Our Final Conflict’ then finish this very varied album, which fans of the mentioned bands should definitely give a try. www.facebook.com/bloodgutterband, www.facebook.com/trollzorn

Wedekind Gisbertson

Wedekind Gisbertson

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