Plague Widow - Plague Widow
Some bands have songs where it is just a quick one two knock out instrumental death growl punch, and then there are the bands like Plague Widow who make albums where the music hits you and then quickly comes to an end. The album is nine tracks of pure intensity for all of fifteen minutes. I feel as though the music came knocked me out and then quickly ran down the street laughing. However, I do have to give the band credit for making some heavy sounding recordings and the musicianship is very impressive. There are plenty of rapid fire blast beats and technical guitar parts. The album starts out with a wash of slow dark ambient noise and then explodes into the growling death grindcore song “Womb.” After listening to the vocals for a while I get used to the brutal grindcore exaggerated growls and they work well with the guitar harmonics surprisingly. It is as though the are synchronized to perfection. The song “Abyss” is broken up into two parts and is just a solo vocal piece where the singer talks in a demonic voice about some gruesome subject matter. Even without the other instruments the lyrics are very powerful and some of the best poetry I have heard in a long time. About track seven the band has established their consistent death grind sound and they do not seem like a band who is going to change up their sound. Tracks seven and eight sound very similar to each other and probably could have been formed into one song.
However, this is a grindcore style band who seems to know what they like and you are going to get what you expect from them probably on each album they put out. The production is amazing and helps give the recordings a great boost of power especially with the vocals. These Sacramento death grinders sound like they have practiced a lot and enjoy what they do musically. My biggest complaint is that there are two many short songs. The nine tracks are very brief and after listening to the album I feel that I am not able to get a full taste of what this band is about. I hear potential and maybe if they added more songs I might be able to make better opinion of the album. Musically Plague Widow is intense, brutal, and a band that probably puts on a killer show. Just for their next album I would like to hear more tracks because fifteen minutes of music is shorter than one song on certain metal albums. Still this album is worth listening to if you enjoy death grind and these guys are from my home state of California. Glad to hear metal bands from the west coast making killer heavy music and maybe I can see these guys live. I just worry that they will finish their set too quick and I’ll have to go home before the sun sets.
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However, this is a grindcore style band who seems to know what they like and you are going to get what you expect from them probably on each album they put out. The production is amazing and helps give the recordings a great boost of power especially with the vocals. These Sacramento death grinders sound like they have practiced a lot and enjoy what they do musically. My biggest complaint is that there are two many short songs. The nine tracks are very brief and after listening to the album I feel that I am not able to get a full taste of what this band is about. I hear potential and maybe if they added more songs I might be able to make better opinion of the album. Musically Plague Widow is intense, brutal, and a band that probably puts on a killer show. Just for their next album I would like to hear more tracks because fifteen minutes of music is shorter than one song on certain metal albums. Still this album is worth listening to if you enjoy death grind and these guys are from my home state of California. Glad to hear metal bands from the west coast making killer heavy music and maybe I can see these guys live. I just worry that they will finish their set too quick and I’ll have to go home before the sun sets.
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- Intro
- Womb
- Mabus Incarnate
- Abyss I
- Void
- Abyss II
- Assimilated Subconscious
- Operating The Segmental Apparatus
- Outro
