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  • From Hell - "Ascent From Hell" 2014 / 1CD
    SCOURGE RECORDS
    USA

    From Hell - Ascent From Hell Here's another so-called fucken supergroup to keep you screaming apes sedated and placated until the next big trend comes along. So yeah, From Hell is that band featuring a bunch of old men from the Bay Area scene, and some dude called George Anderson. I like this, for fucken reals, but lay off the bro vocals already. For fuck's sake, you have a perfectly serviceable rasp, and you throw in these half-assed and totally fucken impotent and unnecessary clean bro vocals? What is possibly gained with those?! Geez. Oh hey, so yeah, this band features Paul Bostaph, Steve Smythe and Damien Sisson. I never particularly cared for either of those bands any of these fucken old men were or currently are in, but there you fucken have it. Odin knows how fucken much metalheads like useless trivia. This is supposed to be some big scary horror story, and the booklet conveniently lays out the basic fucken plot premise - but not too much is made of it. I think Anderson really wanted to go for that King Diamond vibe. I dunno. I prefer Italian and meditterranean horror anyway over any of this American crap. There's still some serious thrashing to be had whenever the band is allowed to actually put the pedal to the metal. Why From Hell persevere with that whole groovy midtempo shtick is something I'll never know, cos with this level of expertise you'd imagine that they just pull all the fucken stops and just fucken thrash your head in. Well, no. I suppose that wouldn't fit the whole concept of this story with all its silly samples and fruity effects. You aren't scaring anyone, and this whole thing is kinda embarrassing, from a narrative point of view A killer trapped in hell must reclaim his soul from the body of a priest and drag it to hell? Excuse me - as I'm sure you spent probably a hell of a lot of fucken time on this story - but what exactly is gained here? The guy is still dead, and still trapped in hell no matter what he does. Doesn't that kinda render this whole silly little excursion, I dunno, moot and fucken pointless? Anyway, narrative troubles aside this is actually pretty good. Perfect second-tier stuff. I mean just look at the artwork, that horrible, horrible logo and the album title. That shit is beyond goofy. I can't believe a bunch of men well into their forties (or fifties even) actually bothered putting this together. The music is pretty exciting and solid, not nearly as fast and cutthroat enough, but solid all the same. The whole premise of this fucken is just… I dunno, juvenile? I think the plot to "Uncle Sam" or "Maniac Cop" was more intelligent and fucken compelling than this shit. Anyway, none of that really matters. Nobody listens to metal for the lyrics - and those that do, yeah, they got enough issues themselves. Is there more you wanna know? It's a bunch of fucken old men from the Bay Area jamming some music together, helping a friend who really wanted to get this story out. The lot of you probably will fucken check this out no matter what I write about it. So yeah, solid thrash metal with a goofy story to tie it all together. From Hell is more than just decent, but Satan's Host owns this niche.

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