Thursday, April 18, 2013

Drug Honkey/Ghost In The Fire/Transcending Obscurity/2012 CD Review


  Drug  Honkey  are  a  band  from  New  York  that  has  been  featured  before  in  this  zine  with  a  musical  style  I  would  describe  as  being  experimental  sludge/doom  metal  with  death  metal  influences  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2012  album  "Ghost  In  The Fire"  which  was  released  by  Transcending  Obscurity".

  Drums  range  from  slow  to  mid  paced  playing  with  no  fast  drumming  or blast  beats  being  present  on  this  recording,  while  the  synths  and  samples  bring  a  very  dark,  experimental  and  industrial  sound  to  the  recording,  as  for  the  bass  playing  it  has  a  very  strong  and  powerful  sound  with  heavy  riffing  that  dominates  throughout  the  recording.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow  to  mid  paced  heavy  riffs  that  combine  sludge,  doom  and  death  metal  together  to  create  a  sound  of  their  own,  and  there  are  little  to  no  guitar  solos  or  leads  present  on  this  recording.

  Vocals  are  mostly  deep doom/sludge  metal  growls  and  screams  with  some  industrial  style  vocals  and  death  and  black  metal  influences  as  well  as  some  spoken  word  parts,  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  themes,  as  for  the  production  it has  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  dark  sound  where  you  can  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  sounding  recording  from  Drug  Honkey  and  if  you  are a  fan  of  this  band,  you  should  enjoy  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Order  Of  The  Solar  Temple"  "Weight  Of  The World"  "Five  Years  Up"  and  "Twitcher". RECOMMENDED  BUY.      

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