### Hunab Ku: The gaze inward

#### 06/08/08 || Kampfar

Hey, don’t blame me, it wasn’t I who sent this piece of plastic to GD.

Fuck you and welcome to this review of a band with a moniker so bad it can, at least if you’re suffering a loose stomach, make you spray shit yourself with laughter. At first I thought they landed on their name after sniffing glue a plenty but a quick search on the net told me Hunab Ku is one out of something like a gazillion gods, this twat belonging to the Mayan rank. No wonder that lot more or less disappeared from the map.

Mayan Upper Priest: A new god just beckoned, and, lo and behold, his name shall be Hunab Ku!

The masses: We would rather have our hearts ripped out than be worshiping this ill-named dork! Kebab Ku, now was it!?

I really, really doubt any in the band worships this fuck, but, and you can take acid on this, they all have Dillinger Escape Plan altar’s in their bedrooms. Roughly put this Banuh Uk lot is said band with less talent and the occasional death metal riffing. Here is indeed talent and know-how but “The gaze inwards” all too often sounds like a band gaping over more than they are able to chew and swallow, which makes it hard to digest. Hell, many times they sound like a collection of guys playing whatever they feel like, regardless of what their companions are up to. Sometimes it works, here only very partly.

I suggest for the guys to be less pretentious, which means dropping songtitles such as “Einstein’s penis wart”, and rather go with their talent. They can never recreate “Irony is a dead scene”, or any other Dillinger album, anyway, so I rather suggest they gaze a bit inwards and see if they find some inspiration there.

Over and out.

3 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: Black sheep records
- Website: Hunabkuk’s Myspace
- Band
- Mike Gilmore: vocals, samples
- Luke Jaeger: guitar
- Matt Finn: bass
- Mark Villano: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Houdini’s achilles heel
- 02. Cloud of synthetic locust
- 03. Murmurs of asmodai
- 04. The departure
- 05. Pecking out my stained glass eye
- 06. Midnight assassin
- 07. Teetering on the edge of nothingness