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SPEEDPVSSY
Black Speed Death Rock And Roll EP

Self-released (2025)
Rating: 6.5/10

One can smell the warm beer a mile off as Chicago, Illinois-based metal mongers Speedpvssy rattles off a new EP, a third in fact since forming in 2021. This is your stereotypical good time barroom blasphemy spurted forth from some rusty orifice with the splodge on the pavement looking like some leathery amalgamation of Mayhem, Entombed (via their death n’ roll period), Bathory, Venom, Sodom and Motörhead.

Strangely more serious sounding than the song titles suggest (‘Beer And Darkness’ and ‘Witchfvcker’), Black Speed Death Rock And Roll refuses to veer from type, and spends 23 minutes soaking you in warm ale that is most probably urine. Throw these maniacs at the foot of any festival bill and watch the horns go up and hair flail as the title cut rips the audience a new one by way of a rollicking bass line, rough riffage and the usual belched vocal smoke.

There’s a blurred line here between satanic speed metal and dragon fire booze metal, especially as ‘Iron Bomber’ gallops astray like a coked up kelpie darted up the arse by the scowling commands of a singer who calls himself Explosion Man! Just slap on those old Venom albums straight after listening to this and just marvel at the fact that those legendary English pub pookas still inspire today.

‘Beer And Darkness’ is surprisingly melodic with its mid-tempo gravel groove. All drums are supplied by Speed Metal Warlord and while I doubt his mother calls him that those kicks and slaps add extra menace to what is already a drunken rabble that’ll provide a fine soundtrack to any midnight alcohol ritual.

‘Witchfvcker’ maintains the levels of pace just so we can throw more beer around but it’s quite the standard reckless gallop, a bit raw around the edges but not quite the heap of hell I was expecting. Meanwhile, ‘Cemetery Blood’ kicks along nicely, at times abrasive but always deathly in its pummeling as the thrashy dynamics weave and worm.

Speedpvssy stick to their blackened guns at a grotesque yet simple canter to the end result of collapsing into a smouldering heap. It was fun while it lasted.

Neil Arnold

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