The Lurking Corpses

 

 

23 Tales of Terror

Release date – 2003

Indy

 

Lineup:

Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul – Gut Munching, Corpse Defilement

Count Lupos Lycanthrope the Mad – Axe Wielding Full Moon Massacre

Baron Boneripper of the Hills – Eerie Undertonal Dismemberment

The Leper – Diseased Beatings and Torture Chamber Assault

 

For my 408^th review since I started this page all so many years ago (I think I’m averaging one for every 5 or 6 days!), I don’t think that I could have thought of a better band to commemorate the moment than the Lurking Corpses. I was introduced to this fine group of young, handsome gentlemen about 13 or 14 months ago (from this typing). It was at a local bar that I was a regular at, and they were playing a show. I was interested from the start, just because I’m a huge fan of live music and I do enjoy the occasional horror movie, and I could tell these guys knew about them even before that night. Anyway, I went in and was blown away by a live set that included the best mix of black metal and Misfits style punk that I had ever seen in my life. Between songs, Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul would even do that high pitched horror voice and say some crazy stuff, it was pretty cool. Anyway, when I talked to him after they finished I was surprised to be talking to one of the shyest people I had ever held a conversation with. He was a very kind person, but when I asked him about the voice he just did a shy laugh and said, “Yeah, it’s kinda an alter-ego of mine.” It raised quite the chuckle from me, but as you look over the information on this CD, it’s hard to believe that someone that can do a perfect black metal voice, a perfect Danzig voice, and sing lyrics to songs with titles like “The Witch’s Cunt”, “Zombie Bitch in Heat”, “Bleed for Satan”, and “When Your Body Dies” could be such a shy person, but nonetheless, he came off as pretty cool person at the same time and I hope they come back at some time, because I really had a great time seeing them and then chatting with everyone in the band after seeing them play. Anyway, I’ll go ahead and give them a bit of an extra plug here, here’s the website: http://www.thelurkingcorpses.com. So anyway, the music is pretty interesting. The first song, “Come to My Castle” starts off with a sample from a horror movie (happens a lot on here, some of them I know, some I can’t pick out, so I won’t go over all of them or anything), but after that sample you get nothing short of a blistering black metalish piece (no organs or anything). After that, “When Your Body Dies” is a song that sounds like it could have come right out of an early 80’s Misfits album. “Fear the Wolf” then follows that up by mixing the two, with the more black metalish part in the verses and the Misfits sounding chorus. The next song, “Meet Me in the Graveyard” then starts off with some black metal vocals in the intro and the first verse, but it’s another song with a Misfitsish chorus. The guy can match Danzig’s voice almost perfectly, and doesn’t have a trillionth of the ego, PERFECT! “Amy” is a song where they actually bring yet another style into the mix by doing a faster old Misfits style, yeah, it’s still a Misfits style, but it more resembles their faster stuff. The CD in general contains songs in these fashions, but with different melodies and riffing and such. They really put out something that you can’t get from many bands, and that’s not only a vintage sound, but a vintage sound to a single band, but they still manage to keep their own original elements in there. “March of the Lurking Corpses” is more of a song where they build up the sound with samples playing at the same time, hit a beat, and then yell, “We are the Lurking Corpses!”, kind of one of those tracks, there’s other albums out with tracks like it. “Bleed for Satan” also shows something a little bit different, as the intro includes a speaking part saying something about sacrificing a virgin or something, you know, the normal everyday type of thing, everyone does it. Anyway, it’s very clear that these guys are huge horror fans, I’m sure they’ve seen fifty times the amount of horror movies that I’ve seen, and it really shows in their music as well. They do a great job though playing something that does resemble past stuff, but they have their completely own style at the same time with the black metal elements that have been added into the fold. As a whole it works out pretty well.

 

This has a pretty raw sound to it, but then again, these guys are not working with the biggest budget or anything, and it actually sounds pretty good when given that. Also, it isn’t a style of music that should be played totally clean or anything, so all in all, it sounds pretty good.

 

These guys bring the love of horror to a whole new level out there, and they do it very well. Their sound mixes punk (especially old Misfits) and black metal, but in a way even more unique than you would think at first. They do a great job on this in pretty much every aspect, and out of 100 they earn themselves an 86.

 

Track listing

 

1.    Come to My Castle

2.    When Your Body Dies

3.    Fear the Wolf

4.    Meet Me in the Graveyard

5.    Amy

6.    The Killer is Near

7.    Zombies (Across the Hill)

8.    Freaky Demon

9.    Horror Geek

10. Ghoulita is Out Tonight

11. Into the Slaughterhouse

12. March of the Lurking Corpses

13. We Want Your Blood

14. Bleed for Satan

15. Hunger Fiend

16. Mummy Cum

17. Werewolf Bitch

18. Sweet Lycanthropy

19. Bucket of Flesh

20. She Will Never Come Home

21. Shakin’ It

22. Zombie Bitch in Heat

23. The Witch’s Cunt