Vile Creature - Cast of Static & Smoke (2018) – Be careful to not to blow your speakers

Another guitar-drummer duo who creates a great Doom / Sludge album in 2018. This time Vic and Kw from Ontario in Canada releases Vile Creature's second album, the massive "Cast of Static & Smoke". Only 4 songs that liquefy your ears in the (little more than) 40 minutes that they resonate.

Listening to the Vile Creature demands dedication, the musicality is stunning, it brings the exaggerated dirt distortion from the sludge, coupled with the tormented groove from doom. Without a bass player to provide fluidity to the sound, the songs become more organic and reverberant. Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper delivers extraordinary Kw vocal performance. His violent howls carry a heavy load of suffering. The song is divided in several passages, some are more rhythmic full of tension, others are more accelerated exposing an incipient fury. Circuits, Bending & Breaking follows the same formula, from the perplexing percussion of Vic arises the tormented vocals from Kw. Forest, Subsists as a Tomb stands out for the sinister groove of an organ creating a tetric introduction that evolves into another 13 minutes of hecatomb sound. Finally, the album closes with Sky, In Descending Pieces, the "smoother" track of all, with slow cadence, but restlessly deep in the oscillating pulse that it goes.

The radiating sound of the Cast of Static & Smoke can be defined in just one word: intense. Vile Creature creates the type of music to be heard at maximum volume, to let the vibrations echo on the walls and to cause cracks in the bricks. If it is to be less than that, do not even waste your time.

Tracklist
1.Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper 10:20
2.Circuits, Bending & Breaking 09:16
3.Forest, Subsists as a Tomb 13:36
4.Sky, in Descending Pieces 08:52

Final conclusion:

Marcelo Hissa