7000 Dying Rats "Season in Hell"

Goodness grindcore! Seasons in Hell is the seismic marriage of grisly murder, pornography, and atomic warfare, '80's horror cheesiness and, of course, blessed, good-natured Satanism. Brutal and psychotic like a smiling, chainsaw-wielding serial killer in a ward full of bedridden victims, 7000 Dying Rats (7KDR) cherishes the music of blades to bone with a chorus of screams.

Seasons in Hell is appropriately titled, lurching between depraved and discordant fits of noisy, metallic bile and eerie, crawling synth-seques, hilarious breakouts of country music, southern rock and hip-hop, bells and piano, and voiceovers that make Hannibal Lector and Henry (see Portrait of a Serial Killer) sound timider than Tinkerbell. The album is a nightmarish hallucination, a Mardi Gras of sound stomping all over haunted burial grounds.

7KDR defines don't-give-a-fuck punk ethos. Twenty-eight ridiculously-titled songs shock and awe from 5-seconds to 4-minutes each, corpse-core treats rife with extreme metallic ferocity, but a satano-slapstick sensibility, too. Seasons in Hell is a polarizing and questionable work of art, the kind that makes me pray death is a one-way ticket into the inferno deepest south -- where 7KDR soundtracks an eternity of horned beasts and earthly offenders frolicking in flame.

Listen to (and worship, if you must): 7000 Dying Rats - "Altar of Goat Skulls"

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