Horrendous - The Chills
If this wasn’t recorded at Sunlight Studios, it sure sounds like it was. The Chills has all the hallmarks of old-school Swedish Death Metal, but from an American band. The guitars are sick. For a second, I thought I’d accidentally thrown on some old Entombed or Dismember (Carnage or Nirvana 2002 if you’re a Metal hipster). Then the vocals kicked in and I thought I was listening to Asphyx. Horrendous has multiple singers, but the main vocalist sounds a lot like Martin Van Drunen. If you can imagine Martin fronting Dismember during their Like an Ever Flowing Stream days, it would sound like seven of the nine tracks on The Chills. One of the songs, “Sleep Sickness,” is a keyboard track that serves as an into to “The Eye of Madness.” The other track, “The Ritual,” has a different band member on vocals so it sounds more guttural. The pacing is a bit slower than I expected, but in a way, that’s the only possibility for the riffing to make any kind of sense. If they played faster, this would be a giant ball of distortion. This is a solid release, and fans of old-school Swedish Death Metal will surely enjoy it, even if the band doesn’t come from Sweden.
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