Miserable Creature 2

This is the second demo by Australian death metal act Miserable Creature. A pretty fresh band on the scene but that doesn’t mean their sound will be fresh as well. In fact, their sound is more rotten than the heart of a political extremist. This demo has only 3 songs (4 if we don’t count the instrumental intro), but these songs are disgusting enough to contaminate the entirety of Australia.

The first song is a short intro, which is basically 8-bit music. Then “Evil Grimace” comes in and I was kind of disappointed at first. The song starts with a pretty basic riff and also pretty standard drumming. I thought that the album was going to be some really boring groove/death metal, something like in the style of Six Feet Under. But then, at 2:56, you get blown away by this crushing tremolo riff, which comes after a clean interlude. It’s like the first part of the song was just the band warming up. After that, it only gets better and filthier, because the rest of the songs will crush your whole hearing system.

“Paralysis of Indecision” and “Inconsolable” are songs that prove further that the band was just warming up on “Evil Grimace”. Apart from all the tremolo riffing, “Paralysis of Indecision” features a pretty great slow and doomy riff which works as the outro of the track. And the song “Inconsolable” features an insane breakdown which also works as the outro of the entire album. The raw and lo-fi production makes the guitars, bass, drums and vocals sound even crazier. The vocals sound cavernous, the guitars are crushingly heavy and have a very menacing tone. The bass actually disappears during the first half of “Evil Grimace” and then re-appears in the second half of the song. The tone is amazing and it’s pretty noisy. Would the song be better if the bass didn’t disappear during the first half of the song? I honestly don’t know. The drums have a pretty raw sound and the drumming is incredibly good. Rhythms go from groovy beats, fast double bass and blast beats. In conclusion, a really needed dose of old school death metal.

Fav Tracks: 2nd half of Evil Grimace, Paralysis of Indecision, Inconsolable.
Worst Tracks: 1st half of Evil Grimace