{"id":93636,"date":"2022-05-18T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93636"},"modified":"2022-06-02T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:37:51","slug":"album-review-spiter-bathe-the-babe-in-bats-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-spiter-bathe-the-babe-in-bats-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"SPITER – Bathe The Babe In Bats\u2019 Blood (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPITER
Bathe The Babe In Bats\u2019 Blood<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHells Headbangers (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to look beyond the front cover and album title with this one, but then again that\u2019s the appeal as this Philadelphia, Pennsylvanian-based creepy band unleashes its debut full-length outing.<\/p>\n

This ghoulish entourage \u2013 a trio \u2013 go by the names Richard Spider (vocals and guitar, Shitfucker), Bat (bass, Devil Master) and Snake (drums), and they are dressed up like some forgotten bunch of Death SS worshippers.<\/p>\n

What you get with this ten-track offering is heaps of atmosphere, but more importantly a blend of raw black metal and punkiness. And for just under 36 minutes you\u2019ll be raked and raped by barbaric hymns such as the bestial thrashing of \u2018Suicidal Blood Fucker\u2019, the whiplash frenzy of \u2018Phantoms\u2019, and the grotesque, deathrock punk of \u2018Tortured Soul\u2019.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame the band didn\u2019t throw in more film samples or creepy organ groans as quite quickly it becomes generic in spite of the promo information for this stating how each track is \u201cmemorable\u201d. Well, that\u2019s not the case because the band just exists to perform relentless black thrash fuelled by spiteful vocal whips and gnarly drum wildness, but the familiar blackened roll that many acts have flirted with.<\/p>\n

\u2018Transylvanian Night\u2019 is a hefty galloper bolstered by its bony percussion and oily, greaseball guitar sound, and \u2018Foreshadow\u2019 follows suit with extra melody in its guitar, channelling the Misfits and that sort of Goth \/ punk urgency before resorting to type.<\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s all quite spitefully delivered, and I love the engaging chug of \u2018Living Nightmare\u2019 and the initial metallic clomp then speeding fury of \u2018Spider Biter\u2019. However, so many tracks just drift by with no real effect. \u2018Full Satanic Power\u2019 is probably the most diverse slab on offer with its deathrock beginning and theatrical hammering, and it\u2019s also wonderfully cheesy. But by the time \u2018Cursed Eternal\u2019 or closer \u2018Debauchery\u2019 has wafted under your nose like black soot on the wind, you may not have the immediate urge to replay it all.<\/p>\n

Bathe The Babe In Bats\u2019 Blood<\/em> is a wiry, thorny hardcore-punk blitzkrieg for those with short attention spans and leathery wingspans. Spiter are bloodthirsty black metal punks drunk on bats piss but losing their effect after its initial satanic sting.<\/p>\n

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

SPITERBathe The Babe In Bats\u2019 Blood Hells Headbangers (2022)Rating: 6.5\/10 It\u2019s hard to look beyond the front cover and album title with this one, but then again that\u2019s the appeal as this Philadelphia, Pennsylvanian-based creepy band unleashes its debut full-length outing. This ghoulish entourage \u2013 a trio \u2013 go by the names Richard Spider (vocals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4810],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-spiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93636","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=93636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93644,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93636\/revisions\/93644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}