Skullovich is a Dungeon Metal (Thrash/Speed) Metal band from the United States. On March 11th, 2022, the band released their latest release, Under A Spell. These songs serve as a single and preview into our upcoming full-length LP, tentatively titled “The Age of Steel”. Under A Spell was promoted through Pennsylvania Music Fan PR.
Introduction:
Skullovich, Under A Spell: 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 Under A Spell
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Skullovich and their Under A Spell album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Comprise strings of chaos and writing hymns of mayhem with hint of Iron Maiden melody/rhythms. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves raw and harsh vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Which delves into the vast world of raw and epicus drumming and hard-hitting beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Explores the lore of epic and dark fantasy with a metallic atmosphere.
As soon as the listener presses that play button, one is welcome to a double roll of the dice, where the album, Under A Spell enchants the listener’s ears and metal mind with two raw and thrash-old-school metal songs, Under A Spell and Dungeon Crawler/Game Over and an epic prelude to the “Age of Steel!” “A story of a warrior’s mind deteriorating from a wicked spell cast by his enemies.”
As the listener rolls the dice and adventures with the first song, Under A Spell, which adds this vigorous thrashing/black and speed metal sorcery. Spell-casting (adding) elements/influences such as epic metal, heavy metal, power metal, and doom metal within their music. Which consists of excellent evil-shouty vocal work, writing hymns of mayhem from the guitar, epic drumming, metallic atmosphere -thus creating this epic clash of extreme metal and sword and sorcery.
As the listener continues their journey with the last track, Dungeon Crawler/Game Over is an epic (thick/chunky) heavy-thrash instrumental piece made to visualise entering a dark dungeon and facing off against ghoulish creatures lurking inside! It has a pleasant “PRG/Dungeon-synth” surprise for the listener at the end!
Skullovich provides and delivers this fruit of art devilmanship. Simultaneously, the production and sound sounded like they were recorded/captured within the walls of a dreary and damp dungeon, where bodies are hung and screams of pain hollow down the dark corridors.
Skullovich gives the listener’s ears this fruit of art music that balances between “extreme”, “raw”, “epic”, “loud”, “headbanger”, and “Old-school” within its nine-minute duration -thus capturing the essence of what the band consider Dungeon Metal.
You’re Listening to “Death Dealer”
PlayThe last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Skullovich and their Under A Spell album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, As the last review and Skullovich’s Demo II mentioned, these two songs capture this “flicking through pages of a short novel or epic game”. Again, what was captured in their last releases’ Demo and Demo II, has been captured within these two songs. This full-length is going to be epic and dungeon metal as hell… Roll on those metal dice for this release.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork is old-school/underground, epic, and draws on those early PRG (games)
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Skullovich, and their album Under A Spell.
This concludes the Skullovich, Under A Spell review.
Track-Listing:
- Under a Spell
- Dungeon Crawler/Game Over
Skullovich is:
- Chevy McQuaide Jr. – vocals, guitars
- Tyler Melton – drums
- Jose Blanco – bass
- Sean Folk – guitars
