Doomstone - Satanavoid
I’ll be damned - a Cutty Sark cover. Well, I’ve heard it all now. The flyer I got with this disc mentions Cutty Sark as if covering them would be impressive. I know Doomstone/Deceased/October 31 main-man King likes some goofy old shit, but I just hope he’s not covering Whitesnake on his next project. Anyway, I probably shouldn’t say this, since I think that Oct31 has released about 50 new albums that I’ve yet to hear (hey King, how about you at least let me know when you have a new release come out?!?), but I thought the point of the myriad bands King is in was to explore different sounds and styles… But they’re all starting to sound the same! Not that it’s a bad sound, retro though it may be, but more or less any of these tracks could be Oct31 or Deceased songs, with just a very little tweaking. I guess that’s okay. So, what we have here, to get to the point, is Pre-Thrash with an evil attitude. Everyone involved would love it if I compared this to early Venom, but it’s really not that intense or raw. Mercyful Fate is also mentioned on the flyer, but clearly someone was extremely high when it was written, as this bares utterly no similarities to MF, other than also being guitar-based music. I respect them for being anti-image and anti-trend (although “retro” is a trend), but this album did little to really get me excited one way or the other. Maybe it just takes more listens than I can afford to give it.
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