Skewered – Homegrown Brutality
Self-released 2007
By Axemaiden
Skewered are one of Ireland’s most well-known and well-respected brutal death metal bands and Homegrown Brutality is a fine tribute to this genre. Although the CD is only six tracks long, it manages to condense so much concentrated gore, violence and grindingly and obscenely savage riffs into such a short piece of work that it leaves you desperate to see them live so you can observe their full repulsiveness in action.
Part of the reason that Skewered are so popular is due to their enormous sense of individuality within the death metal scene. All of the threads of this genre are in evidence, the barbaric guitar sections, ridiculously fast drumming, guttural hellish vocals, complex tempo changes and guitar work and the shocking subject matter, but all of this is also interweaved with an almost funky slap bass which make Skewered instantly recognisable.
My favourite tracks on Homegrown Brutality definitely have to be ‘Cannibalistic Horror’ and ‘Wretched Cum Slut’, which is a brilliant song as it is, but is made so much better with the really disgusting intro. Hopefully 2009 will see Skewered getting signed as they really are talented enough to deserve it.
Official Skewered Myspace
Self-released 2007
By Axemaiden
Skewered are one of Ireland’s most well-known and well-respected brutal death metal bands and Homegrown Brutality is a fine tribute to this genre. Although the CD is only six tracks long, it manages to condense so much concentrated gore, violence and grindingly and obscenely savage riffs into such a short piece of work that it leaves you desperate to see them live so you can observe their full repulsiveness in action.
Part of the reason that Skewered are so popular is due to their enormous sense of individuality within the death metal scene. All of the threads of this genre are in evidence, the barbaric guitar sections, ridiculously fast drumming, guttural hellish vocals, complex tempo changes and guitar work and the shocking subject matter, but all of this is also interweaved with an almost funky slap bass which make Skewered instantly recognisable.
My favourite tracks on Homegrown Brutality definitely have to be ‘Cannibalistic Horror’ and ‘Wretched Cum Slut’, which is a brilliant song as it is, but is made so much better with the really disgusting intro. Hopefully 2009 will see Skewered getting signed as they really are talented enough to deserve it.
Official Skewered Myspace