*Top cover is for the American market while the bottom one is for the European one. |
2013
Just when you think you've seen it all along comes this bunch. Next to Washington's Slutvomit, the Detroit 3-piece known as Shitfucker (Really guys?) possess one of the more tasteless names out there. Or at least in regards to band's that I've had the "pleasure" of covering this past week or so. And it doesn't just stop there with the groups chosen moniker either. Duct tape the band's name to the album's title (which is a thinly veiled reference to the movie The Exorcist one would assume) and then the album's "Banned in Germany" art-work* (referred to here as a "Shiswastifa") and you've got a band (seemingly) going all in for the sake of maximum shock value. But, just like the earlier reviewed Slutvomit (who are also a 3-piece), and their tasty or tasteless (that just depends on how you view it) full-length debut-album, "Swarming Darkness", when it comes down to the actual music on this (long-time coming) debut album, well, it's just not all that earth-shaking or even controversial. Formed back in 2005, and with the usual assortment of demos and EPs having lead up to this full-length debut, it's more of the same blackened metal by way of Motörhead, early Sodom and Venom. These guys seem to worship at the same church as Slutvomit, which means various songs about Satan and how he's their school-yard chum and all that, although this Detroit collective is a but more punk about it. Well, there's that and then, and I doubt it's all that intentional, it's hard to take the band's lyrics or their subject matter all that seriously. And wouldn't you know it, but of course these tracks also tend to blur together just like it was with Slutvomit! Maybe these two bands are just one in the same or opposite sides of one coin? Or, maybe I'm just being a total turd about the mess? Who knows. But anyway, the audience for this group seems fairly obvious and even if I can't recommend this album for everyone, and again it's fairly obvious why not, if you are into black n' roll/blackened thrash or just bands who have songs like "Satantisanity" and "Go to Hell / Rock 'n' Roll Freaky Dude" then by all means do whatever it takes to add this 9-track oddity to your personal collection.
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