Tombstalker - Come come to the cemetery, down by the ruined bridge

Tombstalker

Age of Darkness

Boris Records

29 May 2023

In 21 minutes Tombstalker provides an immensely enjoyable serving of something like a hybrid of Entombed and Dissection or like Entombed covering Dissection or a band combining Swedish death metal with Swedish melodic black metal. The production is death metal and this duck quacks like a death metal duck, but once you look closely at the legs and feathers of this duck, this duck has black metal heritage in some of the riffing and melodies, and some of the drumming. Devoted fans of death/black/thrash should be very entertained by the ways that these Kentuckian-Americans prepare such a headbanging-friendly concoction. It must be all those nighttime shifts working at the local cemeteries and part-time side hustles at the Lexington mortuaries. At this point, I do not know how many times I have heard this EP because it’s just goes on and on, on repeat, and pretty soon I will have this whole thing memorized from beginning to end. It’s three songs of headbanging material, and one instrumental mellow clean or acoustic guitar song. Let’s hope this EP is a sign that an album is in the works. If not, I'm going to Kentucky, I’m going to take my iron horse to the old town roads and ride gas pedal to the floor and talk some horse sense into these guys.

Age Of Darkness by Tombstalker

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