Crawl (review by MMB)

Crawl

Rituals

label: Transcending Obscurity Records

release date: 20 August 2018

Sign up for 25 minutes of zombie death metal filled up to the neck in the mentality of the old school, something like a late 1980s rotting, leprous, buzzsaw platter of horror, gore and violence recorded in a boombox. There are some five bands called Crawl, two are American, one is French, two are Swedish. Out of the latter two, this is the Swedish one that is not defunct. Say it loud and proud, this is retro knuckle-dragging cave-dwelling, analog-loving death metal. The idea is probably that it should not sound any more polished than a demo made after 1987, or 1989 at most. The world ended in 1989 and death metal went all professional. Things went to hades in a handbasket when death metal musicians discovered computers and all that fancy technology that ruined the world ever since by trying to make death metal acceptable to the masses. Crawl will tell you how it is for them: pre-1989, zombies, horror movies, animal growling, angry punk drumming, HM-2 pedals and gore and disgustingness and hate-filled lyrics. Remember to tell your friends about Crawl and the brand: Old Death Metal Made in Sweden.

crawldeath.bandcamp.com