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Doom and psychedelic might not be everyone’s cup of tea, some of us just like our music fast, loud and tear your face off aggressive. So when we recieved the new record from Bloody Hammers we felt like I’d be walking into a purple painted snooze fest rather than a high-octane metal thrill ride.
Our expectations weren’t entirely ridiculous either, as Lovely Sort Of Death kicks – rather slowly crawls – off with a lot of qualities we don’t look for in music. Slow chugging guitars, eerily melodic vocals and synths. Bloody synths. It’s just all a bit slow isn’t it? Sure not every record needs to be as mental as a menstruating grizzly bear, however this is just far too sluggish for my liking.
“The Reaper Comes” had the opportunity to be a really heavy doom metal song if the whole track just escalated a little more, rather than climaxing prematurely like your Dad after a night on the lash. “Stoke The Fire” is a better effort. The track has a little more life to it and acts like a real kick up the arse for the entire record. However, we would say this record is a bit of a one trick pony. A lot of the tracks sound like clones of each other and a full play through results in an audible imprisonment of synth-fuelled limbo. Bloody synths.
We’re certain that this sort of record will appeal to many of you across the globe, and fair play to you. Buy it, listen to it, and love it by all means. However the experience we had with Lovely Sort Of Death is one I will not be eager to have again. The record for us just seemed a little too much like a Grey Saturday. Not quite Black Sabbath, but something desperate to capture the same vibes, and unfortunately being unsuccessful in our opinion.
