“Nobody wanted to listen when we said this was for real, sold our souls to horror and then sealed the deal. You laughed in our faces and really pissed us off. Now BLOOD FREAK is still killing while you die weak and soft. We melt horror DVD’s into liquid and shoot it into our veins. We are socially retarded and completely insane! In the toxic tomb we all rot away watching horror 24 hours a day. Our drive-in METAL is what its all about. We go for the kill - we go for the grossout!”
That passage from the track “Go for the Grossout’ from BLOOD FREAK’S “Multiplex Massacre” album pretty much sums up this blast of thrashing horror slashing METAL quite nicely. BLOOD FREAK, the duo of Maniac Neil Smith (guitars/bass/drums/vocals) and Billy Nocera (lyrics/concepts) have unleashed yet another mindblowing album right on the heals of the last BLOOD FREAK album “Live Fast, Die Young…”, a record which in turn, quickly followed the last FRIGHTMARE monster “Bringing Back the Bloodshed” (a beyond monumental album of limbthrashing brilliance).
If you happened to have read my reviews of the previously mentioned albums you’ll know my strong feelings of intense worship of said records. ‘multiplex massacre’ looks to be no different. Its amazing the amount of extreme metal bands that populate the underground who offer nothing but boring music. There is alot of talent no doubt, but the craft forged in the 80’s by the early thrash and death metal bands is all but lost on many bands today.
Not any band Neil Smith has fronted though! What can be said that I haven’t said before? The haunted, stinking shrieking corpse of old thrash and long forgotten VHS tape haunts anything this very talented maniac touches and the final result is nothing short of brain melting. If Stevo from IMPETIGO calls you the most talented fella in the undeground you have to take notice! Cheers and horns Neil!
1. The Theme From Multiplex Massacre
2. Cleavage Cleaver
3. Rocktober Blood
4. Go For The Grossout
5. Body By Death
6. If You Have The Guts…He Wants Them!
7. Lady Lunatic
8. Aerobicide
9. Don’t Metal With Satan
10. Poultry Pervert
11. Thrills, Chills, and Blood Spills
12. Roadkillers
13. Savage Streets
“Multiplex Massacre” continues much in the same style as “Live Fast…” but seems to be more condensed/focused a bit. The riffs are NEVER boring. The solos are well placed and emotional slashers, some of them actually sound like bloodrenched screams, other times like an outtake from an old unreleased Judas Priest demo from the late 1970’s. Drumming is total old school…brutal snare punishment the classic way with a great sound. In other words the kit doesn’t sound like a precise typewriter, it sounds like fucking drums in a fucking metal band! The tempos are well balanced and overall this is mid-tempo to blast pretty much the whole way (minus the cool intro/outro, the intro sounds like a Fulci score). And yeah, the blast parts remain focused and precise with the guitars/bass/drums/vocals always equally audible. Neil’s vocals have truly become scary-good. Inhuman noises that will scare and puzzle most unknowing sheep.
Visually, this album is wonderful (although the cover for the previous “Live Fast…” will probably never be topped IMO). This cover is great though, a stark b/w collage of horror weirdos, monsters, acid dropping satan, and even a tit. Ordering this direct from razorbackrecords.com will also get you a cool print of expanded artwork (see pic above).
Billy Nocera penned about half of the lyrics on “Multiplex Massacre,” and they are pure genius! Funny and disturbing at the same time. I intro’d this review with a passage of his…here’s another from the thrasher “Roadkillers.” “nobody gives a fuck so its time to quit, your band is a joke, on your corpses we’ll spit”…”retardification was the first to go, it wasn’t fast, it was painful and slow. next up was ensuckment, they went down hard. mucoule gutted the the singer, a fashion-queen retard!” Those are great lyrics!
I’m telling you right now people, Razorback Records is where Relapse Records was in the early 90’s…releasing a new breed of underground horror via bands that are full of exciting drive and vision with a strong grasp on the past architects of metal and the outsiders of extreme cinema and art in general, and this album is another fine addition to the list of the Razorback attack. Don’t miss it!
Stay tuned for an interview with Maniac Neil very soon!
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