BLACK COBRA
Bestial
At A Loss Recordings
8.5/10
Much like getting drunk and driving with a Hefty bag over your head, “Bestial” is beautifully disoriented and destined for a messy, blood-soaked collision at any given moment. Sludge is oozing toward metal prominence, with more acts jumping on this molasses-covered bandwagon every day. That’s just fine, because as Black Cobra so ungraciously proves with “Bestial”, there’s plenty of room to maneuver within the genre.
The Lovecraftian tentacles which grace the cover of this record are befitting, as tracks like “Beneath” and “Sugar Water” are enveloping, suffocating and deadly in their profusely monstrous execution. Although it would be great to hear the vocal ideas become more fully developed, the larynx-shredding screeds on tracks such as “Thrown From Great Heights” and “The Cry Of Melorn” are actually quite befitting of the down-tuned, string-flapping sound of Black Cobra.
If bands like Iron Monkey and The Abominable Iron Sloth are your entertainment weapons of choice, this disc will make yet another fine killer for your arsenal.
ERIN FOX © 2006 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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