SPUN IN DARKNESS – Feast of The Undead (HPGD Productions)

by Janet Willis (Defecation of the Divine)

FAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHKKKK!!!!!! Awesome, this is serious Obituary, Winter, Hellhammer, Swedish DM resurrection here by way of this Las Vegas Doom Death outfit. Truly brutal and low-down mudslinging, gravestone uprooting, unresting those “peacefully laid to rest” and defiling the stigma of Death Metal as being “dead”, when in fact it’s the living dead. Hints of thrash ferocity and total drop D rumbling aural annihilation is contained within. Caution: Contents are extremely volatile.

Everything that you love about the real Death Metal meat, complete with chainsaw riffs, that oh so necessary guitar screech and squeal like a pig taken to slaughter, along with almost grind/death deep style spoken vocals about all the things that your horror obsessed mind runs scenarios of. The “Thump… thump… thump… thumpthumpthump” rhythms of the act of beating and bashing someone to death is brought to life through drums, and all the while armies of zombies are building midnight militias and the cadavers are raping the Medical Examiner.

There is nothing lacking here in terms of visciousness, morbidity, and all out obliterating intensity. “Aftermath” is a sledgehammer assault on you as it follows with continual beatings of steel toe guitar riff kicks to your ribs. I almost forgot the solo, pull out your love of Fucking Kreator/Morbid Angel/thrash virtuosity and then prepare for the follow up shred to peel your skin off like a grater across it powered by a commercial-use sized generator. Speed that even the Hells Angels in all their glory couldn’t cook up comes through this and right up your nose. If anything will get you spinning it’s Spun in Darkness.

Who could ignore “Mortality Rate”, the track on which “50,000 bodies rot” thanks to the efforts the sawing and gnawing of guitar riffs to bring you the fiercest “Stench of death” outside of a genocide camp in 120 degree heat and direct UV over exposure?

The incredible cover of Goatlords “Distorted Birth” calls you into a thrash/death circle pit, there’s no pussing out on this one either. This band has balls so damn gargantuan that when they teabag you they take your head off with the first “whack”. Cool enough to be on the HPGD Productions label, cover Obituary’s “Back From The Dead” and share a split with Coffins, this band and album will kick your ass all over the place, around the world and back in about an hour complete with a soundtrack. Every Death Metal head must rejoice in this barrage of old-school pedigree sounds.