Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
Satanic Sludge. Like a blasphemous version of Grief, but not nearly as interesting. I was all set to like this, but it just goes nowhere. And the screams that pass for vocals, although tortured to be sure, are too shrill and sound like a little kid yelling. When he even bothers to scream at all. Sometimes it’s the “originality” of a slow Rock drone, like Ozzy did 371 years ago. I do like good Sludgy stuff, like the aforementioned Grief, or Melvins, not to mention actual Doom of different kinds (Skepticism, or Solitude Aeturnus to name a couple of pretty different bands), and there is clearly a difference between Sludge and Doom, but Burning Witch just doesn’t hold my interest, no matter if Steve Albini produced it or not. It is oppressively heavy, though. It’s odd that BW’s press release says that this “will appeal to fans of Burzum,” when this couldn’t possibly be any more unlike Burzum. Maybe they think that we’re really that stupid, or that if you like Burzum, then you must part with the cash for anything that purports to be “evil.” This is just ridiculous, and I don’t “get” anything about this CD: The boring music, the terrible vocals, the utterly unreadable layout, the unintentionally comedic press release (“Heroin, hate and Black Death!”), wasting all the cash on a well known producer like Albini…. And due to the people involved, I know this will sell its tiny balls off. If you want mega heavy Sludge, there are plenty of bands who do it way better, and don’t claim to be something they’re not. When you do that, it’s called being a poseur, and if I remember the ancient texts of Exodus and Possessed correctly, Lord Satan really hates poseurs. Or to quote S.O.D., “You’re a bunch of poseur, douchbag, faggot, dickless hacks.” I think that sums it up nicely.
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