A double artist: US Progressive Sludge artist, Mothman and the Thunderbirds and Canadian Duo Death Metal act, World Eaters released their independent Self-title split on October 28th, 2022. The release comprises four knock-out songs (two songs apiece) of pure and raw music.
Introduction:
Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters: 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 Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Mothman provides aggression, amplified guitar-driven sound of progressive metal with curiosity through-laden hooks/riffs, while World Eaters provides prowess war-torn and bludgeoning riffs and shreds of the guitar. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves Mothman providing clean, distorted, hoarse shouting and guttural/triumphant vocal melodies, while World Eaters vocals provide crowdsourced gang vocals and deep growls. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Mothman provides flowing-crushing drumming and progressive beats, while World Eaters (live/female) aggressive drum strikes and beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Four knock-out songs (two songs a peace) of pure and raw music.
Before the listener begins their musical journey… this split EP is (at times) a collaboration of two artists with the same musical preference. Still, this time -we have a showdown of a war/battle between a cryptozoology/folklore creature, Mothman and the Thunderbirds and The World Eaters, who are Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines in the world of Warhammer.
Who will win this heated battle? Spoiler alert: you, the listener. Come to this metal showdown and experience four tracks of pure and raw music. Without hesitation, press the play button and let the battle commence.
…where the listener is welcome to the first opening pieces by Mothman and the Thunderbirds, which welcome the listener’s ears with a new soaring height with both pieces: the infectious song Rusty Shackleford and his heaviest song to date, Nephilim, which exhibits all sorts of weird and wonderful metal subgenres that capture elements/influences of the heaviness of doom/stoner metal, sludge metal. Now adding to the mix, are some essence of black metal and nu metal atmosphere/elements to the mixture.
Following suit with World Eaters, where the listener is welcome to his first opening piece (third piece), Flash OF Green, and the closing piece (fourth piece), The Siege, which welcomes the listener to grim and dark death metal with a 40K atmosphere/lyrical theme
Both artists bring fantastic and devilmanship, topped with well-arranged/composed music/instrumentation work and solid penned lyrics to the metal (war) table, not to mention -that the production (Mothman and the Thunderbirds) is armed with the production talents of Egor Lappo and Alex Snape (World Eaters)
The album comes to an end. We want to give a shoutout to both artists for letting us review 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 Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters provide and deliver this knuckle punch-up release upon the listener’s ears and mind—simultaneously bringing something new, fresh, and different to the metal table.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
I love the artwork; it captures the theme and title while also capturing this vintage black-and-white comic book
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters.
This concludes the Mothman And The Thunderbirds vs World Eaters.
Track-Listing:
- Mothman and the Thunderbirds – Rusty Shackleford
- Mothman and the Thunderbirds – Nephilim
- World Eaters– Flesh Of Green
- World Eaters – The Siege
Lineup is:
- Mothman and the Thunderbirds – Alex Parkinson (everything)
- World Eaters – David Gupta (guitars, bass, vocals, synth) –
- World Eaters – Winter Stomp (drums)
