Scabsmoker is a pretty new three
piece band from Canada. This is their first cassette release on the Prairie
Fire label. It is a one sided tape with 6 tracks of intense stuff. It starts pretty far out and psychedelic with
a lot of twisted, distorted sounds and a freaky keyboard line. A spoken word
line comes in but you can really hear it over the ever increasing noise
intensity that is building up. A slow heavy noisy guitar riff with lots of
sustain is used to build the track with the occasional cough or other vocal
utterance until the real singing, screaming kicks in. Might remind people of
Cough, a more tortured less psychedelic and more low fi Sons of Otis at times.
You have to be really patient for this band but then the band just takes off
and spaces out. It is all very raw in its recording quality. The sound quality
changes quite a bit for the better half way through the tape but also becomes a
bit more normal for the track Black Queen. The Abyss is like hardcore punk,
very raw and fast. Butcher of Demons has a cool bass line to start and then
they take off. Very raw sound and frantic vocals. They slow down to more slow
doomy parts as well and then take off again and add some cool effects on the
voice at times as well. Death by natural Causes is slower from the start with a
slow vocal delivery with delay. I like the feel on this track as it stays slow
and doomy throughout. Call of the First Aethyr ends this cassette. If you can
handle the raw sound this tape delivers some intense stuff…
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