### Viu Drakh: Death riff society

#### 09/05/03 || Lord K Philipson

Welcome fuckers, to the club of weird band names. I can understand the change of name though from their previous one … it’s … hahaha … what the fuck … haha … TIN PAN ALLEY?!? Someone’s cheese slid off his cracker and went to heaven. For fuck’s sake.

Totally unexpectedly (yeah, I expected absolutely NOTHING from a band with a name like this), a band with a name that would make a stuttering retard kill himself comes to my knowledge and kinda blows. I should add “me away” to that sentence to make what I mean more clear, and also to make Legion stay away from mailing them in hope of sexual favours. They are from Germany, by the way, but fuck that now.

This is a fat fucken piece of death metal that I actually dig a whole lot. It’s not the best production around (well, I didn’t produce it, so …), and I can say that ‘cause I have a killer stereo with speakers from hell you could only dream of. But the thing is that the production works with the music for some odd reason. It gives the album a very raw feeling that I like. It makes sense that it was recorded in Berno Studios, Sweden. I have kinda liked that studio’s sound since the early Seance days.

Blasting fucken shit with a lot of influences from all the good death metal you ever heard. Also, the chicken-grind makes perfect sense for a change. The vocalist sounds a little “pushed” and a lot like someone else, but I can’t, even if my life depended on it, come up with who it is … but it works just fine. As always, the bass is not audible but fuck that, I bet he plays exactly like the guitarists anyway.

I like this crap and knowing it’s from Germany makes it even better. That shows they are not Uwe Krupp only. I’m not suggesting you check this out if you are into old school (I hate that term so much … but I pretty much hate everything so that doesn’t say much) death metal, I’m telling you to.

Impressive.

7.5/10

- Information
- Released: 2002
- Label: Moonstorm Records
- Website: www.viudrakh.de
- Band
- Some
- Germans
- For
- Sure

- Tracklist
- 01. Death riff society
- 02. Demondance
- 03. Mutant gods
- 04. Burn
- 05. Peaches & cream
- 06. Caravan
- 07. Blade spirits
- 08. Worst disease
- 09. Dead or alive
- 10. As the dormand awakes
- 11. Silver
- 12. Ace of spades