RASPBERRY BULBS Deformed Worship LP

RASPBERRY BULBS Deformed Worship LP

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(Blackest Ever Black)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  I have been wanting to stock this band's music for awhile, but their stuff has been so difficult for me to track down that it wasn't till this, their second album and first for the excellent dark-music label Blackest ever Black, that I was finally able to get some Bulbs in stock. Some underground metal fans know Raspberry Bulbs as the current band from Marco del Rio, who also went by the name He Who Crushes Teeth when he played with the atavistic black metal duo Bone Awl. You would have to be pretty out of it to confuse the music of Raspberry Bulbs as anything like black metal, though. With this band, del Rio continues to pursue his interests in the abject through a form of noisy, warped hardcore punk, a plodding, low-fi assault of primitive punk that has been mutated into darker forms. Their latest Deformed Worship is an especially striking record, from the stark high-contrast album art that is printed in black against the pink background of the jacket, to the strangeness found on the insert, where the cryptic, philosophical lyrics run alongside crude collages of cut-up images and quotations on art, writing and the act of creation that are taken from such disparate sources as Japanese author Yukio Mishima, painter Jean Francois Millet, and pop singer Annie Lennox. Once you begin to spin this album, however, the sounds that spill off of the vinyl are entirely barbaric...
   Deformed Worship is a discordant blast of dirty atavistic hardcore. Save for the similar stripped-down sonic palette and the primitive cut-and-paste visual aesthetic that del Rio employs, this bears little resemblance to Bone Awls' blown-out blackened violence. Instead, Raspberry Bulbs offer a set of catchy, mangled songs that combine jangling, abrasive punk riffs and pounding caveman drums with the vocals rising in an awesome reverb-drenched snarl, the lyrics delivered in that weird echoing disaffected howl over the band's dark, thrashing hardcore. It actually reminds me a bit of some of the more recent Rudimentary Peni EPs like No More Pain, a somewhat similar strain of simple, crushing punk imbued with a strange malevolence, the guitar bent and abused into these bludgeoning riffs, the bass droning through the songs. It's furious stuff, but also quite atmospheric, which is largely due to the band's grittily low-fi recording aesthetic. They do mix things up a little, with the lurching sludge-punk dirge of "Cracked Flesh" giving way to the monotonous three-chord buzz-saw pummel of songs like "Lusty Climbing", and the last song " I Was Wrong" ends the album with a killer blast of sleazy, nihilistic, goth-tinged punk. This was so much catchier than I had expected, and for me it pushes a lot of the buttons as some of my absolute favorite fucked-up hardcore bands, their mangled, misanthropic vibe and malevolent atmosphere making this something I'd highly recommend to fans of everything from the bludgeoning sludge-punk of bands like Flipper, Brainbombs and Kilslug to the eldritch deliriums of Rudimentary Peni and, yes, even the pounding punk-influenced black metal stomp of Bone Awl. Comes with a large four-panel lyric insert.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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