Thanks, Pete...

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(with a view to padding out this post) Recently I reviewed an interesting release by equally interesting NZ doom metal outfit Devoid Of All Mercy, for Foxy Digitalis:




Um, how many different ways can I find to write that "Devoid Of All Mercy" is the perfect name for this band; there is no possible band name more appropriate, more fitting, more apt, than that. It's ruthless. It's fucking pitiless. It is without qualm or conscience. It's.. devoid of all mercy. It's the new CD reissue of the Battlecruiser 3" cdr of a couple of years back. It's Bob Dylan's wretched, evil twin, with a real bad phlegm problem, gently strumming at his guitar, fingering the shapes of the Diablo En Musica, singing about abduction, torture, rape, cannibalism, desolation, ruin. It's fucking horrible. And so, so good. 9/10 -- Stephen Clover (19 June, 2007)


Interesting because extreme music like "doom" "metal" is possibly not well-knowned for holding up a mirror to its own community and turning the spotlight on some of its more bleak socio-pathological ailments, albeit through the lens of a horror/slasher/gore/cannibal exploitation narrative.

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