Bottlekopf is a Polish Death Metal band. On February 22nd, 2022, Bottlekopf released their second studio album, The Jokes Are Over, which would gratify fans of Entombed and Motörhead. The album was released through Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Psycho.
Introduction:
Bottlekopf, The Jokes Are Over: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of The Jokes Are Over
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Bottlekopf and their album, The Jokes Are Over.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features roar-guitar artistry of bulk and abrasiveness riffs and heavy-bass riffs. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves monstrously grunting death growls. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of rhythmical and brutish gallops of the drums.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Thirteen bomb anthem songs that will bomb ‘n’ Roll Your Soul
Immediately, as the listener presses that play button, the listener is welcomed to the opening piece, Intro, which welcomes the listener’s ears with epic drums and Norse chanting/ritualistic atmosphere – building up for battle.
Following suit with the second track, Justice is the first song following the intro track. The remaining eleven pieces burst out of the PA system like a bomb going off – giving the listener’s ears this massive sound and music that is unpolished, dirty, and noisy.
As one continues with their journey of the third track, Seven And A Half, and the ten remaining pieces – where the music and songwriting are well composed, while the sound and production are straightforward but also raw and unpolished.
At the same time, The Jokes Are Over is delivered and provided by tight devilmanship that consists of giving the listener this raw-unpolished, dirty, and noisy atmosphere of powerful, adrenaline, fuel-pumping/driven, headbanging metal bomb anthem. That utilizes roar-guitar artistry of bulk and abrasiveness of brutal and groovy riffs, — but also complex at the same time providing the listener with additional clean (flashy at times) virtuoso riffs/fret-board (shredding) solos where all various compositions are convenient to place at the right moment of each song.
The rest of the instrumentation work is just as outstanding as the guitar work, one will hear the bass riffs presence at the back with its heavy-crushing atmosphere.
Marek “Chlosta” Szefer‘s vocal work, which consists of gruntled death growls, doesn’t copy anyone’s signature style, but captures and creates a style of his own.,
Rhythmically and brutish gallops of the drums – again, all are convenient to place at the right moment – at times, the music seems to drift off the left path of their death metal sound. This is to give the listener moments of unique/experimental moments within their music, such as; a raw punkish vibe, heavy-thrashy, gloom and doom.
Simultaneously, when one reaches the ninth track, Guest, there’s a moment in the song of hearing this Pantera‘s Walk atmosphere. Track eleven (one of the most extended tracks), where one will encounter an avant-garde/ experimental guitar and drum instrumental work for the first five minutes before the vocals are unleashed to finish off the rest of the piece. The twelfth piece, Dead Blues welcomes the listener to a Motörhead sound and some groovy Memphis blues embedded in the music—closing the album, with the conclusion (short) track.
The Jokes Are Over is an entertaining and different/new breed of death metal, with characteristics and a style of its own. Not to be missed or any track to be skipped -to be played loud and at a volume of a maximum of eleven!
The album comes to an end with the last song, Supplementary, which provides the listener with a gloom/doom instrumentation atmosphere closure. We want to give a shoutout to Brutal Cave Prod for letting us review Bottlekopf and their album, The Jokes Are Over. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
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PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Bottlekopf and their album, The Jokes Are Over.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, the instrumentation and vocal artistry provide the listener’s ears with something new, fresh, and different -one can hear within the music; the band had fun making this album and creating the music for this release.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork conveys a similar feeling and vibe to Motörhead‘s Bomber album cover, and I particularly appreciate the bombs, which are bottles of beer that align with their music/lyrics and band name.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Bottlekopf, and their album The Jokes Are Over.
This concludes the Bottlekopf, The Jokes Are Over review.
Track-Listing:
- Intro
- Justice
- Seven and a Half
- My Breath
- Silent
- Way to Decapitation
- Molecule of Life
- Six Six
- Guest
- The Creeper
- Brainwash
- Dead Blues
- Supplementary
Bottlekopf is:
- Marek “Chłosta” Szefer – guitar/vocals
- Marcin “Martino” Glanda – drums
- Radosław Surówka – bass/vocals
