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SUICIDAL PREACHER
Suicidal Preacher (2022)

Channelling the early demo days of bands like Death, San Diego act Suicidal Preacher announce their arrival. The band consists of Eric Espina (vocals and guitar, ex-Archfiend), Elton Bernache (bass) and Joshua Rios (drums).

This demo is 16 minutes of fast-paced death metal that brings moments of murkiness that nod towards Autopsy. So it’s that kind of no frills, yet engaging death / thrash.

The five-track affair begins with the frantic ‘Doused In Acid’, where vocalist Eric Espina rants like a rabid killer, barking with snappy ferocity amidst a wave of nifty aggression.

However, the band really does benefit from the doomier segments, as evidenced on the fantastically morbid ‘1050’ with its soupy introduction before we are treated to a volatile Repulsion kinda violence.

Elsewhere, ‘Quartered In The Bathroom’ is rancid and sickly as is closer ‘Lost Hope, Found Rope (Slow Death)’, while the cover of Death’s ‘Mutilation’ is respectfully slurping.

All in all this is a solid and squalid demo featuring lashings of all that is good n’ gory about death metal. So, get on the band’s bandcamp page and support the underground.

Neil Arnold

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