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Artist : Switchblade Jesus
Album : Death Hymns
Label : Independent
Year : 2020
Genre : Metal
Encoder : LAME
Playtime : 27:53
Source : WEB
Bitrate : 320 kbps
Size : 67.78MB MB
URL : Music Streaming Service
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1. Scorched 4:22
2. Red Plains 4:36
3. Behind the Monolith 4:41
4. Death Hymns 2:37
5. Forgotten 5:54
6. Behemoth 2:31
7. The Blackened Sun 3:12
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Returning with new fire and more technical approach, Switchblade Jesus
incorporates their Doom/Stoner tones with more thrashaholic riffs and Noise
Metal at times. Helped with the addition of bassist Chris Black who brings his
love for Death and Prog metal to fill out the sound even more.
Fans of: early Mastodon, Kylesa, High on Fire, Neurosis, Unsane, Baptists
"The album in question runs an unfuckwithably tight 27 minutes and boasts a
head-crunching blend of sludge and noise riffs that feels culled from
Remission-and-nothing-else-except-maybe-also-Lifesblood Mastodon and maybe some
pre-nⁿ-metal Helmet thrown in, and still keeps some level of atmosphere through
its centerpiece/side B leadoff title-track and momentary breathers like those in
ôBehind the Monolithö or at the end of ôForgotten,ö the latter of which is
topped with a blistered J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita. That
popular sample is backed by ôBehemoth,ö which runs a heavy-thrashy
two-point-five minutes and, indeed, kind of sounds like itÆs in the process of
becoming death, the destroyer of worlds.
IÆll hope to have more on it before itÆs out, but to put it bluntly, Death Hymns
is a fucking beast. Its noisy aspects might catch you off guard if all you know
of Switchblade Jesus is the self-titled, but give it a chance and you will not
regret letting it thoroughly pummel you. - The Obelisk"
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Switchblade_Jesus/Death_Hymns/900649
https://switchbladejesus.bandcamp.com/
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