A Double US Extreme Metal Act: Flesh Terror (Female Fronted Blackened Doom Sludge) and Slumlord (Sludge/Grind) released their independent self-title spilt on July 14th, 2022. The split was promoted through Blind Man In Pennsylvania.
Introduction:
Flesh Terror and Slumlord: 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 self-titled album
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Flesh Terror and Slumlord, and their self-titled album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Flesh Terror provides slow crushing and dark-menacing riffs. While Slumload provides raw-aggressive hardcore/sludge-like riffs. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Flesh Terror provides evil, bleak and torturous vocals. While Slumload are standard shouty vocals of hardcore punk. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Flesh Terror provides heavy drum strikes/beats. While Slumload provides more epic and rhythmic drum patterns/rocking’ roll beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Comprises six artillery assaults of bleak and chaotic songs and music…
Before the listener presses that play button, the music comes with a warning; one will need an open mind and a strong stomach, so be ready to indulge your ears and yourself in an extreme and chaotic vortex where both acts play this chaotic, violent cacophony of powerful music.
Each artist consists of capturing a sound, atmosphere and musical spectrum of their own —where Flesh Terror plays this bleak-damp menacing (female-fronted) blackened doom/sludge and Slumlord plays this short-lyrical chaotic hardcore punk/sludge grindcore assault.
As soon as the listener presses that play button, the listener is welcomed to the opening track of Flesh Terror’s State-Wide Panic, which welcomes the listener to an audio clip.
Following suit with the remaining piece of artillery assault of the instrumental and bleak raw and sick vocals, where this artillery assault carries throughout the last of Flesh Terror‘s two remaining tracks, Blowfly Girl and Cyber Prison.
Flesh Terror’s music consists of various compositions/characteristics such as audio/vocal clips, slow-crushing and dark-menacing riffs, heavy drum strikes, and not forgetting those female vocals that are evil, bleak, and torturous.
Continuing with the last three pieces of Slumlord, which welcomes the listener with their songs, Possum, All My Life, and Assembly Line. These songs provide the listener’s ears with assault-battering music that is fast and short -and filled with raw-aggressive hardcore/sludge-like riffs, epic and rhythmic drum patterns/rockin’ roll beats. Slumlord’s vocals are your standard shouty vocals of hardcore punk.
This artillery assault of bleak and chaotic EP offers and desires the darkness from the listener’s soul by delivering top-notch devilmanship and instrumentation from both acts. Solid lyrics and songwriting that utilise an atmosphere that’s powerful, raw, dark, menacing, slow/fast crushing, extremely outrageously evil music, and an atmosphere of flies buzzing over a decaying corpse.
If you like your music dark, menacing, bleak and black as hell -this is for you -not to be missed!
The album comes to an end with the last song, song name We want to give a shoutout to Blind Man In Pennsylvania for letting us review Flesh Terror and Slumlord and their self-titled album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
The Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Flesh Terror and Slumlord and their self-titled album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: The whole thing, the aggression with the music, the vocals, the explosive instrumentation, etc.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
I’m not too sure about the artwork. With the music and songs (listen carefully), I guess the painting could make sense and fit the lyrical/themes.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of their self-titled album.
This concludes the Flesh Terror and Slumlord review.
Track-Listing:
- Flesh Terror – Statewide Panic
- Flesh Terror – Blowfly Girl
- Flesh Terror – Cyber Prison
- Slumlord – Possum
- Slumlord – Slumlord
- Slumlord – Slumlord
Line-up is:
- Flesh Terror – Amyl Nitrite vocals
- Flesh Terror – Wolfgang Steigerwald – guitar
- Flesh Terror – Sin Dee -bass
- Flesh Terror – Avery – drums
- Slumlord – Noah Norris – vocals
- Slumlord – Brent Leinheiser – guitar/ vocals
- Slumlord – Jarrett Swartzb – bass
