Ghoul Splatterthrash CD Review

October 6, 2024
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*Originally written in 2006*


Deep within the catacombs under Ghoul's castle in Creepsylvania, there are rooms filled with meat hooks drenched in blood, chainsaws with tufts of human flesh in the teeth and tables littered with skeletal remains. In the room next to those you will find the darkest and filthiest of them all...this is where the SPLATTERTHRASH is brought to life!

What should one expect from SPLATTERTHRASH? Well, actually, the title defines it perfectly. It's a combination of blood splattering, gut stomping atmospheres intertwined with saw to the bone thrash. Don't let that fool you though, as Ghoul can change it up as quickly as blood spilling out of a gutted pig. While songs like "As Your Casket Closes" and "Gutbucket Blues" have more of a traditional thrash sound, songs like "Bury the Hatchet" and "Cult of the Hunter" often cross into death metal territory and while there is a good deal of treading the thrash and death metal lines on this album, the band trade off between the two flawlessly. If you dig on thrash and death metal but want something a little extra, Ghoul provide it courtesy of the ghastly surfabilly/rockabilly instrumental "Psychoplasm".

~TJ

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