sobota, 21 października 2023

A review of Wharflurch "Lurking Doom"

 

Wharflurch

"Lurking Doom"

Dawnbreed Rec. 2023

 


This material is some years old now and has managed to appear on tape on Gurgling Gore and then on silver disc on Morbid Chapel Records. Only now, however, a vinyl release has been handled by the Dutch Dawnbreed Records. Very rightly so, because I think it's material  by all means worthy of attention, even though it doesn't really bring anything revelatory to the death metal genre. These twenty minutes of music won't cause another industrial revolution, they won't write about it in the newspapers or mention it on major TV stations. People won't kill one another for it or sell their mothers to have it, no. It will reach a specific audience who don't give a shit about any novelty and have been feasting on old school tunes for decades. The Yanks invent rather thick, sometimes even clumsy riffs, once in a while speeding up to slow down again and grind, grind, grind.... At times we can hear a typical Incantation guitar, elsewhere a guitar solo, and everything is accompanied by a gravedigger's coffin vocals. The Americans balance somewhere on the edge of catacomb death/doom metal, only occasionally letting a bit of a glow into the music in the form of more melodic guitar parts. Well, this kind of music is something you either like or not. Personally, I love digging into such damp, graveyard soil and then licking my fingers with satisfaction.  In hindsight, I find that I like this EP much more than Wharflurch's debut full-length, on which the musicians probably started mixing too much. "Lurking Doom" is simple, yet not trite, death metal. Such as the genre was at the very beginning of its existence. If you haven't had a chance to get acquainted with these recordings yet, I sincerely recommend them.

- jesusatan

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