Denial Fiend - Horror Holocaust
This band used to have two former Massacre/Death members in it (Kam Lee and Terry Butler) but Kam Lee has since left. In his place is a new vocalist, and boy does he ruin this album for me. Musically, Denial Fiend is old-school Death/Thrash in the Florida vein. Vocally, the new guy, Blaine Cook, is very different from Kam Lee’s brutal Death-growl. He sounds pretty demented but not in a good way. I couldn’t listen to this for more than one or two songs at a time because this guy’s voice makes you want to pop your eardrums. Yes, it is original and distinctive but I never want to listen to this LP again. It’s that fucking irritating. They could fire this guy and get Jerry Lewis to sing for them and it would make this album 100% more listenable. 2011 is apparently the year of shitty vocals. There seem to be a lot of bands that have vocalists with styles that are not merely inappropriate for their style of music, but actually make the album worse because they clash so badly. Denial Fiend is a classic example of this. With Kam Lee, this might have been a bit generic but I could at least listen to it. With Blaine Cook, this album is essentially unlistenable.
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