Metal music was once known for its musical flipping out. The reason wasn’t only the music that was out of the known, and praised, patterns, but also the attitude towards society, costumes, and all the decency. However, as all things, Metal music and the bands were tamed. If it is good or bad I really don’t know. Both sides have their pros and cons. What I do know is that is always a huge pleasure to receive a band as Repuked and their 4th album called “Club Squirting Blood.”
Well, to the ones that already know the band it’s useless to say the are a fold of musically demented people. The music in here is totally out of, and in, the box – just to use a term that is on. “Club Squirting Blood” proves with flying colors. The combination of instrumentals and vocals they use is simply outrageous to say the least. I’ll elaborate. At first, Repuked sounds as just one more Raw Death Metal band due to vocals. The beauty of it – can I use the word beauty referring to Death Metal? – is that throughtout the album the raw, gruesome, and vicious vocals gives much more adding some Hardcore elements to it as the debauchery and disdain. There are moments the impression it gets is that there is some puking going on as in album tittle “Club Squirting Blood.”
So far, so good isn’t it? No, not at all. Now the instrumentals. It’s insane the blend Repuked do here with the instrumentals. The guitar is a blend of many techniques proving the prowness of guitarist Nicke Piss. The dude can go from the simplest riff to the most complex solo in a heartbeat. If my dear child of the night pays close attention he gives many intentions to his guitar playing. Sometimes they are pure Metal; other times they are Jazz Fusion. It’s only the chords and things but also the overtones which he changes acoording to his crazed feelings and intentions. Pay close attention to the guitar bridge in the middle of “Dark Purge Fluid.” See how it breaks all expectations. The way he uses his whammy bar is also to praise because no ones does it nowadays. All of this in track no longer than 3 minutes. The extreme shift on cadence in “Dead Existence for Humiliation” showcases the band’s ability to vary and impress. Sometimes the guitar sounds to be talking with vocals.
“Club Squirting Blood” was one the biggest surprises I had this year. And to think I decided to review it just because I had no more albums to review this week and it was there unreviewed just waiting for me. The thing is I leave some albums behind because I don’t have time to review all of them. If I have the time, as now, I give them a try.
Repuked “Club Squirting Blood” was released on November 22nd via Soulseller Records.
Track Listing:
- Stiff Dick in a Stiff
- Parasitic Flesh
- Dark Purge Fluid
- Dead Existence for Humiliation
- Crotch Rot
- The Slobbering
- Rebel of Vomit
- Club Squirting Blood
- Loose Limbs
- Into the Anal Abyss
- Stench Inhaler
Watch official music video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!