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DRAWN AND QUARTERED “Lord of Two Horns”
DRAWN AND QUARTERED “Lord of Two Horns”
By Dr. Abner Mality
It should be against the law for a band as old as DRAWN AND QUARTERED to be this brutal. Yet “Lord of Two Horns” reveals these veteran maniacs from the Pacific Northwest to be more violent, misanthropic and demonically virulent than ever. They’ve got something to prove and this record is a clarion call for all “new school” death metal bands to stay the hell off of their lawn!
You can feel the determination to be extreme in less than a second with the ferocious attack of “Black Castle Butcher”. This sets the tone for the album and from there, things rarely let up. It’s honest to say this is the fastest DRAWN AND QUARTERED album ever. There is zero cavernous doom/death riffs on display this time around. When we get around to “Three Rivers of Poison” and “The Devil’s Work Is Never Done”, there is a very slight let-up in pace but nothing approaching “slow”. I also detect the introduction of a more “dissonant” kind of death metal here, but it is merged (or rather, submerged) in the typical D & Q ethos.
It’s also an evil pleasure to hear the sinister tones of lead growler Herb Burke throughout. Herb has been executing his gravel-chewing gutturals longer than some of his listeners have been alive! He’s a seminal death metal vocalist. By the time the album wraps up with the short but ripping “Mass Grave Curse”, you’ll know you’ve been whipped and scourged by one of the best!
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