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░ ██ ██ Artist: Satan Worship ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: I'm the Devil █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2017 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2019-05-16 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Thrash Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Iron Shield Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ The debut from this German/Brazilian collaboration █
█ could hardly ever be accused of not wearing its █
█ heart on its sleeve...a black, pulsing, just torn █
█ from the chest of a preacher heart. Satan Worship █
█ is the product of a couple guys you may █
█ know...Marc Reign, skin beater of the mighty █
█ Morgoth, laying down the bedrock for a couple of █
█ dudes from Sodomizer, whose mainstay's style more █
█ aptly fits the sounds of what you'll hear on I'm █
█ the Devil. Baseline punk/speed metal with a lot of █
█ mandatory nods to Hellhammer, Motorhead and Venom, █
█ performed with a consistent, light-hearted █
█ enthusiasm that relies a lot on the character of █
█ the vocals to give it a more robust, menacing █
█ atmosphere than you might here on a lot of █
█ comparable albums...and there are countless of █
█ those to choose from. █
█ To that effect, of course, it does possess some █
█ charm, as Leatherface's enormous, growling tone █
█ leadens down the procession like a gluttonous, █
█ obese daemon who emerged from his cave to find █
█ that the morning newspaper had already been █
█ incinerated on his lawn. Big, dumb, barking, █
█ raunchy and lovable gutturals belched out over a █
█ riff set that can't have taken more than 3-5 █
█ minutes at any point to conceive, hyped up by █
█ Reign's bombastic drumming. The tones here sound █
█ good, and I actually like that the vox are █
█ delivered with such a voluminous swell that lets █
█ its ugly sustain carry over the slightly less █
█ muscular rhythm tone. Bass is fat as fuck, just █
█ listen to that breakdown in "Azrael's Hand", but █
█ generally it just tags along with its brother █
█ instrument, but the mix of the drums and guitars █
█ really hits a shuffling sweet spot that will █
█ warmly remind you of a lot of your fave old school █
█ punk and hardcore discs given a more ironclad █
█ vision. Not every riff pattern on the whole disc █
█ is terribly generic, they'll occasionally throw me █
█ for a loop, and they also layer on some flimsy but █
█ atmospheric leads to round things out. █
█ I won't lie, I had a lot of fun listening here, █
█ especially to a handful of tracks like "The Girls █
█ of Manson Family", where the vocals and thrust of █
█ the instruments concoct a genuine, headbanging █
█ elixir I kept putting on repeat...but that is the █
█ SOLE reason I'm giving it the positive. When it █
█ comes to nuance or genuine nastiness, it falls █
█ behind a great many other acts in its niche, so I █
█ wouldn't want to mislead anyone into thinking it's █
█ glorious for anything beyond its own primal, █
█ bloated absurdity. The lyrical subjects are all █
█ painfully obvious, few tracks strive for anything █
█ beyond a few riffs, and certainly there are tracks █
█ which blend into one another on the memory. But █
█ when I turn off my expectations, dig the cool logo █
█ and cover art, and just want an acceptable █
█ hell-blast of leather and spike-endowed excess, █
█ then I'm the Devil evoked more than a couple █
█ smiles from me and so on some level it's both █
█ amusing and successful. █
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░ 1. Holy Blasphemy 2:45 ░
░ 2. I'm the Devil 3:29 ░
░ 3. Azrael's Hand 3:40 ░
░ 4. The Girls of Manson Family 3:56 ░
░ 5. Satanik Possession 3:56 ░
░ 6. Zodiac Overkill 3:40 ░
░ 7. The Black Flame 1:51 ░
░ 8. Black Death 3:16 ░
░ 9. Under Sign of the Reaper 4:24 ░
░ 10. The Last Days of Paul John Knowles 4:07 ░
░ 35:04 ░
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