There’s a good core idea here and you can certainly hear it on certain songs, but it isn’t realized consistently enough to make a sizeable dent in my music appreciation lobe, and that’s frustrating. Unfortunately this time they take a partial step backward, with some songs fully realized and steeped in doomy/gothy rock goodness, while others feel underdeveloped and dare I say it, rushed. ![]() They seemed to gain a better sense of where they wanted to go musically and the writing took a step up as a result. To their credit, despite the hyperkinetic release schedule, their last outing showed significant improvement over their debut. Under Satan’s Sun is their first album without a topless woman on the cover (which I take issue with, purely for marketing reasons, mind you), but their style continues to broaden and evolve, blending the occult rock shtick made so notable by Ghost with the throwback doom of Hour of 13 and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. ![]() In fact, this is the third of their platters I’ve reviewed since late 2012, which pretty much makes them the anti- Necrophagist. It seems Bloody Hammers has a new album in the pipeline every few months.
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