You've all heard the complaints of outsiders about the vocals in Extreme Metal: "can you understand what he's saying?" "I like the music, but the vocals are too much." "There's too much screaming!". Guttural vocals are so common in modern Metal, that without them, something just seems "off". Take Inquisition for instance, great traditional Black Metal, but with the most boring and flat-sounding vocals ever. Sort of like really amateurish throat-singing. The vocals in Blood Revolt divide fans in the same way. I would describe them as halfway between singing and (loudly) spoken word. While these vocals do create a strong contrast against the music, they give the rare pleasure of being completely understandable, as well as providing actual dynamics.
About the instrumentals, they're pretty damn straight-forward. What you have here is some blazing fast Black/Death, not unlike later Angelcorpse. There's also a pretty significant Doom influence to break up the blast-beats. The production is really dry, really live, and really brittle (but in a good way). Overall, a pretty interesting new take on an exhausted genre hybrid.
it sounds like the vocalist stumbled into the wrong studio. maybe they meant to have skeletonwitch's singer and skeletonwitch meant to have their singer? though actually i like the discordance between skeletonwitch's music and vocals. doesn't work for me here. but thanks for sharing, dude.
it sounds like the vocalist stumbled into the wrong studio. maybe they meant to have skeletonwitch's singer and skeletonwitch meant to have their singer? though actually i like the discordance between skeletonwitch's music and vocals. doesn't work for me here. but thanks for sharing, dude.
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