Bison B.C. can dress up the music any way they like, they can’t hide their true intention, which is to rock out in a lumbering, fuzzy head-trip fashion.
Ever watched a comic who had one joke he tried to re-tell over and over and it stopped being funny almost instantly? That’s pretty much what you get here.
Slayer sounds more sinister when they’re in a mid-tempo groove. That approach makes World Painted Blood their most malevolent-sounding album in a while.
Eight tracks that conjure up fuzzy metal memories of classic Maiden, Sabbath, and Priest albums. Compact, calculated, and built to withstand endless revisits.
That’s not an instrumental intro (like the killer “Dark Intentions” opening The Haunted Made Me Do It), this is a three-piece instrumental thrash metal band.
Being interviewed by Bill Zebub is enough to melt anyone’s patience. A testament to the tolerance of Peter Steele, George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, King Diamond.
Jens Broman’s voice is formidable, a higher-register Chuck Billy, and the rest of the band has no problem assembling a suitably pummeling thrash/death hybrid.