Vulture

Vulture

Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves

Metal Blade Records

7 June 2019

The Germans in 2019 follow up their 2017 debut The Guillotine. A crazed bunch devoted to the art of speed metal, the reverb-loving squad is characterized by keeping the guitars fast and the echo-filled vocals maniacal. It’s not that the vocals sound angry or filled with hate, it is that they are uplifted by their love of fast heavy metal for headbanging. At heart, they dedicate themselves to exploring the area where the guitars deliver sharp riffs and fast melodies, and they work that niche with skill. The vocals seem crazed, but done well. It is not the tough-guy screaming and yelling that comes from genres like punk rock or groove metal or middle-America bro metal. The vocals are along the lines of the maniacal vibe of early/young extreme metal, in this particular case, the high screams of early/young phases of Slayer and Destruction; dark, screw-loose type of vocals. It’s not operatic power metal high screaming, either. This is too crazy for that. It’s more like a madman using reverb as a cloud in which to operate. Unashamedly metal, leather, spikes and bulletbelts, the band makes headbanging, fast metal music for the speed metal heaven of tomorrow. vulturekills.bandcamp.com/album/ghastly-waves-battered-graves