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I received this tape after hearing a sample and liking what I heard. Ouija Ouitch hails from Michigan and offers a brand of stoner/doom metal that harkens back to the occult-themed past of Sabbath, Black Widow and Coven. Limited to 100 tapes, Halloueen represents an era doused with reverence, yet sadly lacking in real resonating acts doing everything correctly.

This tape has a really good sound that doesn’t copy Sabbath to the point of criminality, but the influences are quite tangible. There’s a definitive Ozzy-like vocal from singer that really calls upon the Volume 4 or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath era; it’s a sort of style that doesn’t overdo itself with range or even power, but it wails just enough to fit the mold to a pinpoint degree of musical accuracy. “Devoured by Ouitches” is very 70’s in its design, structure and tone, which makes for a great track. The guitars are complete Iommi worship with some interesting takes on the historical sound that aren’t ever boring or thrown together in haphazard discord. “Solitude” alone makes this whole demo worth it with its somber and discontented feel throughout. I wish more bands would lay off the stylistic dramatics and strip down to this style more often.

All of the tracks on the demo are really good and interesting, especially for Ozzy legions that long for that early and mid-70’s vocal he’ll never find again. I really dig the step back about 40-years to a time when doom and stoner rock was carefully crafted and brilliantly coveted. Ouija Ouitch has the formula down and it would do you a service to hear this demo, but act fast as it’s only in an edition of 100 numbered cassette copies. It’s worth the time.
Gutfucked, Ouija Ouitch, Space God Ritual & Whoretopsy
January 25, 2012
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Gutfucked - Demo 2011
From the bowels of hell (or Florida, anyway) we find Gutfucked polluting the intestinal tract of every thinking metalhead within a 50 mile radius. I usually tend not to like the borderline grindcore music, but this demo grabbed my attention with some disturbing visuals painted in the two tracks offered.

The opener of “Too Sick to Suck It” decimates the room with brutal guitars that chop at the ear drums like a dull machete in desperate need of sharpening. The vocals offered are very typical garden variety (even if that garden is dead and rotted), but as with anything it fits the music’s tone. While there’s nothing overly brilliant or tremendous about this first demo it has a couple of good riffs that sit in your head for a bit. The good thing about death-grind is its ability to understand the in-and-out quality to the music: get in, tear the place up in as minimal time as allotted, then leave quickly without sticking around too long. When “It’s Not Rape if She Comes” does pretty much the same amount of sonic destruction as its predecessor in the same perfectly-timed assault you realize what you’ve just heard is quite enjoyable for a sick and twisted mind.

The quality of the demo is decent; nothing polished and nothing primitive, and the band seems to have a clear grasp of the tasks at hand, defiling the metal genre evenly and without so much as a blood splatter on your shoes as you cart off the bodies for posterity.
Space God Ritual - From Beyond the Beyond
Release Date:  2011
Label: Band Self Released

TRACK LISTING:
1.  Untrustful Wench  2.  Burning Girl  3.  Occultus Maximus  4.  Necronomic Woman  5.  The Mad Arab  6.  From Beyond the Beyond      -    Total playing time:  36:28
Sludge from the lower intestines of hell bellows forth from Portland’s Space God Ritual; this is a murky outfit that relies on the down-and-dirty feel of bar-band doom for total reverence. The first demo from this band showcases the driving forces of overpowering doom and ugly metal music from the middle of nowhere. Either one is good when done right, and SGR does it quite well.

So SGR issues this foam-around-the-mouth style of down-tempo metal music that can encompass the better of two worlds: the local dive bar sound that plays to a somewhat stoned, yet hypnotic conglomerate on any given night and the staunch, over-critical doom group that is stuck in 1972 with Volume 4. Whichever you might find of particular fascination would serve you well in checking out SGR. “Necronomic Woman” is right out of aforementioned Volume 4 playbook, rife with fuzzy guitar tones from Hades and a thick, brooding atmosphere that covets and entangles the psyche. The band follows a pattern of groundwork laid before them many years ago but to a degree of superior design. It’s simple in its delivery, yet there are interesting implements and sounds that make SGR a study in sludge rock that everyone should hear. 

The best way I can describe the vocals is a whining, ethereal dragging that are somewhat unique and ring familiar to a later era Johnny Lydon in tone. Now, before I get castrated for such a comment or paint a totally different picture here than needs painting try and hear a Lydon post-Sex Pistols or even PIL. He did a vocal for a band called Leftfield a few years back on a track and his vocal tone was so pure and powerful that this vocal tone reminds me of that familiar whine. I assure you however, that is where the comparisons cease. This is simply doom at its undeniable height. 

The band just issued a second release via its bandcamp page, so I implore you to meander over there and hear these guys. It’s really good music, plain and simple.
Ouija Ouitch - Halloueen
Release Date:  October 31, 2011
Label:  A Terre Records

TRACK LISTING:
1.Halloueen  2.  Devoured by Ouitches  3.  Ouon't You Ouake the Ouitch?  4.  Solitude     -    Total playing time:  28:05
DOWNLOAD Halloueen from the band's bandcamp page (click on link above) or order from: Big Cartel
Release Date:  2011
Label: Band Self Released

TRACK LISTING:
1.  Too Sick to Suck It  2.  It’s Not Rape if She Cums
-    Total playing time: 7:17
For a copy of Demo 2012 contact the band via their facebook page (click on link above).
Whoretopsy - Demo ‘11
Brutality by death metal creeps up from the literal underside of the planet as Australia’s Whoretopsy barks and destroys ear drums right out of the gate with a brand of metal that could dent solid steel and cause bouts of inevitable whimpering.

In three strong songs there’s a dismantling of the basic death metal fundamentals and a genuine show of slow, crunchy parts that give way to quick-paced down-tuned chords that are both furiously structured and vicious. I don’t usually enjoy these total guttural vocals, but the mix-and-match of the ‘processed’ sound and the obligatory growling tone make for an interesting demo. I like some of the guitar riffs, especially “Cardiac Defecation” where it just relies more on the old days of deathly thrash and cuts away quick to a doomier pattern that really flips the overall feel of the song and defies conventional means of issuing a death metal edict worth hearing.

With a really clear production and a classic in-and-out delivery of these tracks, Whoretopsy makes my list of DM bands to keep an eye on in the coming months, especially just being signed to Infinite Regress Records. Check them out.
Release Date:  April 29, 2011
Label: Band Self Released

TRACK LISTING:
1.  Intimate Disgust  2.  Cardiac Defecation  3.  Voyeurism    
-    Total playing time:  8:10
 
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