More solid metal from Adelaide. The back cover of ‘Worship the Bled’ depicts hundreds of nasty looking bombs/missiles hurtling to earth, bent on annihilation. And this is very much the effect of this record. It’s all about destruction.
This writer prefers a little more dynamics and melody in the metal, but this record will appeal very strongly to those who enjoy their metal unrelentingly brutal and uncompromising. There’s minimal time or space wasted on clean vocals and soaring choruses, quieter passages, soundscapes or ambience, or anything even resembling progressiveness, this is a wall to wall, mind numbing thrash assault on the senses that barely lets up for a single second. And this is the way many heavy music fans love their metal.
Best track honours go to the titanic, call to arms chorus of ‘Hunt All Heroes’. The tiniest hint of haunting, gothic atmosphere is attempted on ‘The Great Waste of Flesh’, before the track descends into mayhem once more. ‘Summon Abyss’ slows down, and fattens up, the groove slightly and closes the album in pretty devastating fashion.
Unlike a lot of metal these days, the musicianship on Worship the Bled is actually quite functional and directly serving of the song, and the production is kept deliberately raw, gnarly and brutal.
This album is possibly a little one dimensional to become a real favourite for this metal fan, but it’s more than well put together enough to appeal to metal heads to whom harmony, light and shade and variation mean little. And there seems to be a lot of those out there, so there is a definite audience out there for these Adelaide heavy hitters.
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