Creeping! Crushing! Crawling!

“Creeping! Crushing! Crawling!”, the second release of Plasma, a German metal band, is one of the more interesting buys available. Relatively obscure and unknown, yet available on iTunes under ironically an incorrect album title “Rampaging!” instead of “Crawling!”, the CCC release is one of the best uses of weird vocal effects in music.

The album is about 50’s sci-fi horror movies, the song titles telling the story of arachnids and insects that were exposed to radioactive substances and rampaged throughout the city. As for the music, it is mainly heavy metal patterns, not as particularly brutal and low-tuned as death metal but somewhat neutral, mixed with interesting pitch-shifted vocals. The aforementioned vocals sound like an underwater effect and are very fun to listen to: bubbly, rippling, and guttural. This is interesting because unless you speak pitch-shift, you have to focus on the overly-cool music. Fortunately, the songs are under and around two to three minutes, making it go by smoothly and nicely.

Overall, I would recommend this album to anyone who doesn’t HAVE to have lyrics and such. The guitar and drums have easily head-banging patterns, and this is short enough to hold your attention-span. Recommended tracks: Menace From The Ocean Floor, Observed Observer. 86/100