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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