Black and Blood

Soul Remnants sophomore release has been in the making for the last four years and finally our ears are able to glean the hellish creativity this band thrusts outwards at us. Black and Blood radiates an intensely frightening aura that was created for one sole reason: to cripple your feeble eardrums and attract the masses towards this nefarious creation.

An easy comparison would be to Swedish super-group Bloodbath, though Massachusetts based Soul Remnants deliver with a more infernal sound composed of chaotic light-speed guttural thrash melodies. When straying from the wicked relentlessness, you are slapped across the face with wild and reckless guitar solos; sometimes even more than one per song. Lucky us, eh?

The drumming keeps up an inhumane pace that transitions quickly between blackened blast-beats and battle-worn thrashing; it is as crisp as hell-scorched bacon. The unholy vocals are at a perfect balance between being understandable and being at that level of ultimate fear-filled demonic gospel. To boot, the imagery that the vocals depict are none other than total gore, carnage, and ultimate bloody nothingness. Black and Blood is the carnival from hell.

I developed a love for the song “Cauldron of Blood”. It is an incredibly graphic song for an album filled with malevolence. The lyrics are so enjoyably sinister, with lines such as, “covered in guts, buried in guts / they’re in line waiting for my axe to bless their head / it only takes one whack to be free...” Mitchell closes off the evil verse with, “my blade needs a skull to f**k.”

If you are searching for sheer brutality then look no further, Black and Blood is exactly that and more.

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