Release date: 6/16/2023
Origin: Tokyo, Japan
Personnel: Kazuhiro Asaeda-vox, Yukito Okazaki-guitar, Tatsu Mikami-bass, Toshiaki Umemura-drums
Serial killer obsessives, Church of Misery, come back with another solid slab of doom/stoner inflected metal. This one explores the chilling exploits of notable mass murderers such as John Allen Muhammad (The Beltway Killer), Fritz Haarmann (The Butcher of Hanover, pictured on the album cover), Randy Kraft (The Freeway Killer), H. H. Holmes (The Devil in White City/America’s first serial killer), Robert Hansen (The Butcher Baker) and our very own Texan lunatic, David Koresh. The sound on here is pounding and fuzzy. You can definitely tell that the bassist Tatsu Mikami is the main songwriting architect of these pummeling tracks.
4 flip flops out of 5
The list so far:
16. Church of Misery-Born Under a Mad Sign
17. Primordial-How It Ends
18. Imperium Dekadenz-Into Sorrow Evermore
19. Royal Thunder-Rebuilding the Mountain
20. Katatonia-Sky Void of Stars
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