{"id":101888,"date":"2023-10-30T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101888"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:20:54","slug":"album-review-black-knife-baby-eater-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-black-knife-baby-eater-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK KNIFE – Baby Eater Witch (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLACK KNIFE
Baby Eater Witch<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWise Blood \/ Mercenary Press (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Okay, how can one not be attracted to an album featuring track titles such as \u2018Evil Sex On Halloween\u2019, \u2018Heavy Metal Punx From Hell\u2019, \u2018Crawling Through Your Guts To See The Light\u2019 and \u2018Snakebite Succubus\u2019? This is the spooktacular third outing from the Lexington, Kentucky-based trio which formed in 2016 and is a perfect autumnal soundtrack for those who like to huddle around the cauldron and concoct a special brew.<\/p>\n

Black Knife \u2013 featuring Hellwulv (guitar \/ vocals), Bast (bass) and Thumbcutter (drums \/ vocals) \u2013 delivers a particularly nasty brand of punk infused black n\u2019 speed metal, the sort of whip cracking venom that we are all so familiar with but which time and time again we find ourselves under the heinous spell of. The trio doesn\u2019t mess around as they jumpstart straight into the scowling fury of \u2018Haunt Your Nightmares\u2019, which billows black plumes of Bathory smoke while discarding sordid, odious embers of first and second wave black metal.<\/p>\n

\u2018Red Rotten Face\u2019 and the snarling title track have no interest in deviating as both numbers spitefully rattle and spit like a fitting cobra. It is evil in its occult driven way, as track after track zips by like a pack of rabid wolves. In a sense, I\u2019m glad I\u2019ve not followed the threesome since the beginning as my attention would have waned by now, but I did enjoy the 2020 split EP (Flying Death<\/em>) with Brazil\u2019s Whipstriker and Black Knife\u2019s 2021 album Murder Season<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Baby Eater Witch<\/em> is fast n\u2019 raw DIY devil\u2019s metal and does exactly what it says on the damp ouija board, only this time the planchette is scurrying all over the place. \u2018Screaming From The Depths Of Hell\u2019 is about as melodious as it gets, although Hellwulv remains steadfast in his vocal outbursts which are akin to an icy gale snapping at your neck. \u2018Killed By A Ghost\u2019 is a horrific amalgamation of Mot\u00f6rhead, old Destruction<\/a> and vintage Sodom, leaving the walls coated in a powdery sediment and a stench of sulphur as if one has just shit out those cheap beers you had last night.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, \u2018Heavy Metal Punx From Hell\u2019 careers off with a Hellhammer guitar tone, \u2018Curse Of The Devil Bat\u2019 engulfs with its speed and \u2018Snakebite Succubus\u2019 offers a mere whiff of something more measured. But in the great, clouded scheme of things this album revels behind its own acidic smokescreen and plies the listener with high doses of alcohol-infused mayhem to choke on through the night.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLACK KNIFEBaby Eater Witch Wise Blood \/ Mercenary Press (2023)Rating: 7\/10 Okay, how can one not be attracted to an album featuring track titles such as \u2018Evil Sex On Halloween\u2019, \u2018Heavy Metal Punx From Hell\u2019, \u2018Crawling Through Your Guts To See The Light\u2019 and \u2018Snakebite Succubus\u2019? This is the spooktacular third outing from the Lexington, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-black-knife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101892,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101888\/revisions\/101892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}