BONES - Diseased
Transcending Obscurity Records
There are places in the mainstream metal media where they come out with lists of most anticipated releases of the year. Most of them are bullshit because of advertising dollars. But when I saw that Transcending Obscurity Records was putting out the newest BONES release. I was like yeah this is my most anticipated release choice for 2019 and here is why.
First off I was a huge USURPER fan back in the day. To me they were the US version of CELTIC FROST. But by the late 2000's they died. Then instead of rising from the ashes you had ex-band members rise up on their own. It's like that ending scene from the movie Jason and the Argonauts where the teeth of the hydra help raise the bones as warriors.
That's what BONES were all about. In 2011 they (Jon Woodring - vocals/bass, Joe Schaeffer - drums and on guitar Chris Svoboda) came out with a debut release that was a death thrash masterpiece. Better yet they followed it up a few years later with Sons of Sleaze. And then the quiet set in which for a fan sucks.
Earlier this year the reformed USURPER released the comeback release Lords of the Permafrost which was pretty good so what will this new BONES release combat it with? Well starting out your new one with a song titled "Blood, Diarrhea and Tears" is a good start if not scary for older folks like myself who are worried about rectal cancer. That's alright since I'm OK.
As far as this new BONES release goes musically this is their most cornucopia type release so far. This trio drag various genres of extreme music through the filth. I mean there's times when BONES actually gets sludgey and doomish. Personally I was shocked but it always ended in a death thrash or even old hardcore style. Jon Woodring's vocals are maniacal in an old hardcore sounding way. There's good sounding albeit familiar riffs.
On a whole it took me some time to get into this one. Personally I'm always going to like the first two so this comes in at third place. I'd say a few decades ago sound-wise this would've been called crossover. This is definitely a metal and hardcore hybrid style which is a reminder of cool times from many years ago.
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