To me
Razorback Records stand as the label that saved Death
Metal. No more, no less. When technical wankers were taking the genre somewhere else from where it should have been, Billy and
Vanessa were the only people that had some sense left in them and kept on releasing Death
Metal records you could actually listen to without going epileptic.
Though some of the label’s latest releases have not been as brilliant as expected, they carry on the flame of real Death
Metal with a passion and have succeeded in igniting it in others. Poland’s Selfmadegod certainly caught fire more than some others because after releasing both albums from the mighty
Encoffination and being a long time distro partner of the aforementioned US label, here comes a split album between two bands of the
Razorback roster:
Crypticus and
Scaremaker.
Let’s get started with
Crypticus. There’s no words telling how much I like the previous two albums from Patrick Bruss' band. Here the definition of cookie monster vocals takes all its meaning and it's just an avalanche of riffs that just kill with a sense of groove that very few bands have. Most people had complained in the past that
Crypticus had no drummer and that the drum programming failed the tracks. Though it's certainly nice to have a full-fledged band, these records are near perfect and that programming isn't annoying (he knows what’s he doing!) but hey, you wanted real drums? You got them here…so four tracks of pure
Crypticus madness with real drums? What the heck more could you ask for?
Nothing.
That’s what I thought.
Then comes
Scaremaker’s part.
Scaremaker isn’t exactly your typical Death
Metal. Not just because of Billy Nocera, owner of
Razorback Records, not just because of
Vanessa Nocera (does this scream
Razorback!? AGAIN!?) makes it a female-fronted band, not just because the Elektrokutioner is here to axe his drumkit but because their horror-based take on Death
Metal mixed with the sound of proto-80s stuff and a propension for rock n’ roll with two-tons bollocks make them sound like no other band from this
Earth.
I recently read that
Vanessa’s vocals were somewhere in between
Deicide’s Glenn Benton and Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks! Freakin’ fitting if you ask me. Resolutely different, you’ll hear pure Glam Rock a la Motley Crue, aggression a la
Venom and even some Black
Metal riffing... and this is Death
Metal!
The stakes here may seem high, two “niche” bands with a supposedly limited audience but really at the top of their art which makes this split album stand above the rest. If you don’t know either one of these bands, it’s about time you do and this is the perfect blend for the two of them. Long live
Razorback, long live Selfmadegod!
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