Italian brutal Death Metallers FULCI are back with a new full-length called “Duck Face Killings”. An album that you can still pre-order from the main 20 Buck Spin website if you take a look. This album comes to reinforce the typical style and brutality of the band, while still playing with their characteristic sound and resources. FULCI is pretty good at combining the essential elements present in the regular Death and brutal Death Metal territories and is able to add their own soul on top. Things like their spoken intro or spoken parts à la MORTICIAN (a benchmark band) and the incorporation of the synthesizers as “protagonists” of the band, have always given FULCI body and personality. Because this is a band that sounds “brutal”, but is able to perfectly balance it with the exact dose of Death Metal required to stay tuned and in expectation (if the prefix “brutal” is not part of your preferences for Death Metal). With FULCI, you still want to know what’s going on. “Duck Face Killings” is their fifth full-length (or fourth actually since “Exhumed Information” from 2021) and the band is here to shout it out loud. FULCI has been active since 2014 and has been proposing (during 10 years) a pretty solid way to enjoy the brutality of this type of sound whereas the spaces for synthesizers and some other type of experimentations occasionally appear. Those synthesizers seem to take us to a film from the ’80s and provide a sort of “calm after the storm” somewhere around their discography. Here, for “Duck Face Killings”, you can experiment it with the second song ‘A Blade In The Dark’. The structure of the album is very consistent and the songs keep uniformity all accross the album. 14 songs, all of them short, around 33 minutes long in total. However, I must admit that the song ‘Knife’ sounded too “odd” to me as I did not expect to hear anything like that on an album like this one. But songs like ‘Fucked With A Broken Bottle’, ‘Slashreality’ or ‘Rotten Apple’ remind you of what FULCI is made of. Needless to say that the last song ‘Il Miele Del Diavolo’, with that saxophone leading the melody is kind of “breaking the law”, but it doesn’t mean it won’t fit with the denouement of the album per se. Still valid! Whatever the case may be, FULCI is a pretty brave, organic and delightful band that all brutal Death Metal maniacs must host. With Klem Diglio on bass, Dome Diego on guitars, Fiore Stravino on vocals, Edoardo Nicoloso on drums and Ando Ferraiuolo on guitars, the quintet from Caserta, Italy is here to hit you in the face. Contact: www.facebook.com/fulciband, www.facebook.com/20buckspin