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:	post by ben at 2012-07-17 19:30:40

or this one from England:
CD Review: Inverticrux - Virgin Reaper
Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 May 2012 16:55
Written by Phlis
Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:43

Hailing from the US Inverticrux have just released their debut album Virgin Reaper. So what do we have?

The first song Virgin Reaper starts on a very sombre note then blasts into some quite punky but yet metally rifts and beats. The vocals are very reminiscent of good old 90s thrash with a few Kiss type screams blaring in the background.

A Cautionary Tale is like an Iron Maiden epic but started with guitars and a harmonica, I must say I do love the backing growls and you hear the Kiss esk vocals ringing in the background.

Shores of Styx is a track that is a serenade to the dead as they cross the river Styx on their way to the afterlife. With no vocals this is an instrumental to the dead.

Azreal Beckons My Name gives very much of a haunting feel in music and vocals, it has great chugging but yet melodic guitar riffs which combined with the vocals adds atmospheric majesty.

To Serve That Dark Design is an amazing track starting with a bell tone then heading straight into a well put together heavy metal track. This song takes me back to my youth in the 90s with a mixture of aggression and passion in the music and vocals. This song is one of my favourites on the album I must admit.

Lured By The Scent Of Infants Blood throws the listener into a sombre melancholy visualisation capturing Inverticrux’s own dark style. The deliverance and the way the lyrical narration catapults you into a state of eerie segregation.

Cult Crashers is a good track with the good chuggy guitars but yet I think the screams are out of place on this track. Apart from out of place screams this is a track with the great dark vocals and pounding yet thundering drums accompanied with a side order of immense guitars.

Mr Dead-Spider Gates is a great old school death metal sounding track, I really love the vocals on this track. The accompaniment of the backing vocals which sound like a demon popped in to lay them down on the recording of the album. It has great sounding bass lines too on this one.

Final Tranquillity is an amazing piece of music, the guitars provide atmospheric glory to the max here on this one.

Hurt Whores is a very heavy punky track which come through quite strongly very much in the way the vocals are sung, the sounds of the guitars and the bass but yet the drums are quite thunderous. It is a great end to the album as a whole I feel.

So in summary there are some elements that are out of place like the high pitched screams which some people may not like at all. Inverticrux will appeal to hard-core metal fans and maybe punk fans alike thanks to the various elements which seem to manifest themselves in Inverticrux’s music. If you like bands like The Misfits then give this album a blast as it may just become a favourite in your collection. I give Virgin Reaper 7/10 but must say it would be an 8.5 if some of the screams were placed in the right places.

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