Sexmag "Sex Metal" Review

 

Sexmag

"Sex Metal"

Dying Victims Prod. 2021

Each Polish fan of the old metal at the sight of the name of the new band from Silesia will have only one correct association. The origin of its name is so unambiguous that you don't need to explain anything to anyone. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess what content is hidden on the debut, apart from the demo cassette released last year in the amount of only twenty copies, EP etitled coquettishly "Sex Metal". It features an intro / outro plus five tracks kept in good old heavy / thrash metal style. I mentioned that the band is new at the scene, but the members of the band are hardly newcomers. After all, names such as Black Hosts or Haunted Cenotaph are well-recognized brands in the native underground. Here, the gentlemen decided to pay tribute to the great Polish underground of the 1980s. Yes, I’m writing Polish on purpose, because in Sexmag's music the echoes of such legends as Kat, Destroyers, Wolf Spider or Dragon are most deeply reflected. So there are no technical performances here, but there are a lot of fragments to shake your head with, cutting deep like a razor harmonies, the singer's panicked scream, also in the national language, and old school riffing. And how wonderful the guitars sound on these recordings, you can get goose bumps. Exactly as they once sounded - a bit dry but predatory. There is not much originality in these sounds, and some fragments even touch on a little plagiarism, but everything is so well-tuned, restored and arranged according to grandfather's recipe that it is impossible not to get carried away, nomen omen, by madness. This material is only twenty-five minutes long and each listening session passes like a cumshot, but believe me, listening to "Sex Metal" on a repeat can really make you lose track of time. Especially when the individual tracks have already bitten into your head and you are not able to resist the temptation to ride this time machine even one more time. This material has penetrated me damn deeply and it sits in my head like a splinter under a fingernail, not giving me peace. Catch this EP because it's just great.

- jesusatan