Title: New Level of Malevolence
Artiste: Sterbhaus
Genre: Thrash Metal
Familiarity: Zero
1. Grudgeholder+Hatemonger: Okay, when I first looked at this I thought, maybe electronica or trance, something like that? But no, it's metal, and I'm told the band use humour in their lyrics, so maybe this will be a blast. Maybe not. The title of the first song would certainly please Urban! Really fast and thrashy with a sense of Slayer in the lyric, though I have to ask what the **** this means? “I’d like to whip your ass and whip it good/ Good ol’ fashioned human stew/ That will once it’s served/ Serve as another mocking bird.” Huh? The vocal's scratchy but I've heard worse doing Metal Month III. Meh, not too impressed though. Actually no, I really don't like this one. Poor opening.
2. El giftus Satanus: I do like the line “What sort of job is this for a skeleton anyway?” and also “El giftus Satanus! The gift that keeps on giving/ Whether you're dead or living!” Yeah, it's a good bit better than the first track. Some great guitar work here.
3. Necrostabbing the corpsefinder: The title is hilarious, but the song is too fast and chaotic really.
4. Bloodbarf: This is much better. Slow, grindy, menacing, and I can mostly undersand the vocal.
5. Crossed and pissed and devoured: They're mostly just getting a pass for the quite funny lyrics, but this song is also not too bad. Not as frenetic as others. But how can you not like the title, then the line “Succubus-ting my ass off”?
6. New level of malevolence: This even has a hint of Maiden in the guitar riff at the start! Nice. Was that a ****ing Russian folk melody just now??
7. Baby Jee and the 3 stalkers: Not sure if they're just messing around with the lyrics here, but the joke's beginning to wear a little thin. Okay, to be fair, there's a pretty sweet slow guitar part here about halfway that's induced me to change this from White to Orange. At least they're trying!
8. King of the red: This is actually really good. I can get into this. Sort of like power metal slowed down. Nice unexpected gentle ending.
9. It came from the brain: Back to the aimless thrash
10. The grand theology: Something of a mess really.
End result: Definitely not my thing, but I'll give them respect for clever and often funny lyrics. Not a band I'd listen to again though. Maybe a trance one would have been better?
So, Love or Hate? I can't Hate it, it ain't Meh so I'll give it a cautious
Like.