{"product_id":"sadomatic-rites-demo-2023-cassette","title":"Sadomatic Rites – Demo 2023 cassette","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3313890008\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSadomatic Rites – Demo 2023 cassette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have no idea what is going on in South Korea that instigates this level of madness, but there's something happening there. Some of the craziest-sounding black \/ death metal I've heard lately appear to be emanating from that region of the world; it's as if the South Korean black metal scene is plagued with rabies. Take Sadomatic Rites. This brand new project crawled into my skull via the fantastic Rites of Pestilence Youtube channel, and I can't get it off me. I can’t get it off me. This is absolutely punishing black crud, low-fi and hand-made and totally horrendous, coming from the foul orbit of the Berserk Ritual Productions community of bands, all of which exists in a kind of bizarre, hyper-Satanic frenzy. That all-out Satanic madness fully infects the brain-damaged blackened gurgle of Rites, the totally incomprehensible vocals alluding to mindless acts of blasphemy and profanity, desecration and disturbed apocalyptic visions. This stuff is unapologetically obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original online demo (which initially was just two or three songs) slimed over me like a barely-sentient black oil spill, serving up a blast of stumbling necrotic doom with bizarre delay-drenched vocals, weird unidentifiable noises, and disturbing, ophidian hissing. Bass-heavy, and distorted to hell. The music violently lurches from side to side, from one sicko riff to the next, but sticking with a repetitive, hammering hypnotic attack where the anonymous monster behind this grinds out these filthy, fucked-up riffs ad nauseum That barbaric simplicity and anti-social gibbering combines with a kind of sludge-punk minimalism that stinks up the joint. Vocals echo over the satanic sludge through a thick haze of delay and other effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe band blatantly cites the likes of Beherit and Ride For Revenge as its main influence (the band name itself is taken from a Beherit song, natch), and boy, you can definitely hear it. But over here, my ears also pick up guttural whispers of the messy, crushing, doped-out trudge of stuff like Upsidedown Cross, Kilslug, and Drug Problem-era Drunks With Guns. It all sounds so mangled, murderous, and likely psychotic. A glorious mess of loathing and antipathy. When things pick up the pace, like on the bumbling quasi-blast of \"Piss Your God's Grave\" (sic) and the tumbling havoc of \"Crawling Slaves of Jesus Christ\" (zero subtlety here, folks), Rites turns even more chaotic and damaged, a caveman thrash beat banging away beneath chaotic shredding, atonal guitar \"solos\", and those incessant, repulsive chant-like vocals. The abrupt tempo changes from manic hammering to gluey psychedelic pummel give me a wicked case of whiplash. Then there's the parts where it sounds like droning synth drifts up out of the gutter, adding a creepy ambience to this stuff; it's those moments that evoke the ancient weirdness of Drawing Down The Moon-era Beherit, not something that many bands are capable of pulling off. It's bonkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Crucial Blast Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49723887092004,"sku":"","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2606\/0952\/files\/sadomaticrites.jpg?v=1723147535","url":"https:\/\/www.stickfiguremailorder.com\/products\/sadomatic-rites-demo-2023-cassette","provider":"Stickfigure Mailorder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}