Beastmaker – Inside the Skull (2017)

The glittering technological future we were all promised has turned into a dystopian nightmare. If music must reflect the times, the hour has plainly come to reject the mainstream status quo and get down to the roots and rhythms of life’s elemental heaviness.

And that’s where Beastmaker comes in. Purveyors of some of the most ecstatically thunderous and raw doom metal to emerge in decades, this three-man riffing machine from Fresno, California, are manifestly the real deal. Their sound is instantly recognizable and yet thrillingly otherworldly, like all your favorite riffs fed through some perverse malevolent prism and reborn in fresh, overdriven grotesquery. From the old school opener and the warped psychedelia of ,,Now Howls The Beast” through to the twisted fury and fire of ,,Psychic Visions”, INSIDE THE SKULL is not just a muscular hymn to the glory days of heavy metal’s genesis and early prosperity: this is a vital, virile and venomous slab of wildly creative but spiritually pure doom devastation.

01. Evil One
02. Heaven to Hell
03. Now Howls the Beast
04. Of God’s Creation
05. Give Me a Sign
06. Nature of the Damned
07. Psychic Visions
08. Inside the Skull
09. Night Bird
10. Sick Sick Demon

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