WOMBBATH - Tales of Madness
Transcending Obscurity Records
The album cover here reminds me of the poster for the movie 'A Haunting in Connecticut' from years ago. I really don't talk about cover art much but in this case it's warranted. Which you will learn about shortly because there's a haunting from the past reference. By the way that movie came out in 2009. Sweden's WOMBBATH have been around since the early 90's.
Now that was a different band, albeit a death metal act, and only bassist Hakan Stuvemark is the last remaining member from those days. By 1994, after releasing one full length and a few short form releases the band stopped. I don't have any of those old recordings. Nor have I tried to find them as a collector or look to social media / Youtube / download sites for that material.
The band, Hakan Stuvemark and some new members including Jonny Pettersson on vocals and guitar, got back together in 2014. I got into WOMBBATH with their 2015 full length Downfall Rising on Dark Descent Records. Since then I've been a fan especially with their last two full lengths which came out on Soulseller Records.
Now what we have here on this release is the modern day line-up of the band re-recording some of those old 90's era cuts plus some new ones. I just wanna say "Hell Fuckin Yeah" to that. There's a couple of songs from their 1992 demo Brutal Mights. From what I believe are new cuts well they match up well.
If you just wished bands like ENTOMBED, GRAVE (the original line-up) and DISMEMBER kept going strong after say 1995 (instead of what really happened) then you'll love this. This is totally devastating Swede death, heavy on the Boss HM-2 rhythms with some melodic soloing. Vocals by Pettersson are barked, growled and bestial delicious. The modern day rhythm section delivers things lite hearted as the original sound was done. Slice and dice on the soloing.
All in all WOMBBATH's Tales of Madness is a reminder of Swede death greatness brought to you nowadays. Look people I'm in my late 50's and remember this music originally with fondness and anger. Sure any piece of shit can blast an older album and act like they care about a past when they were still in their dad's balls. For me I'm telling ya it's a well worthy fuckin tale of hate.
LISTEN HERE:
https://wombbathdeath.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-madness-death-metal
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