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HELLK’T SS
Obscuro Heavy Metal (2022)

Consisting of G.E. Witchfynde (vocals and bass), Diego Mur (guitar) and Tony P.S. (drums), Hellk’t SS are an obscure band that plies its unholy trade by skimming the surface of black, speed n’ thrash metal influences like Venom, Mercyful Fate, Bulldozer, Motörhead, old Slayer, Death SS, Hellhammer… you know the score.

These Mexicans pride themselves in being obscure, parading the streets only by night to ravage the souls of the sleeping. The soundtrack they create is full of punky gang chants, nasty, raw spits and a rather catchy yet oily brand of metal that possesses your body and leaves you covered in your own sick.

This is truly fiendish stuff that unravels like the mighty black, oily coils of a great mythical snake holed up in some putrid citadel. There’s variety here too though. From the doomy dungeon riffs to hyper, lo-fi basement speed metal which harken back to Voivod’s original caustic clank, in just 13-minutes Hellk’t SS offers up so much primordial tumult that it has prompted me to try to fit into my old, dusty leather jacket and throw some spikes around my wrist.

All four tracks – ‘The Oath’, ‘Violet Flames’, ‘The Night Of The Goat’ and ‘Hellk’t SS’ – are simple, hellish metal for dark, lonely nights in the pentagram. Everything about this just reeks of decay and devilish gloominess, even when those solos hail like the howls of wind and the percussion bangs like a rusty cellar door caught by the demonic wind.

What’s clear is that there will always be rank, rancid metal like this floating about like graven fumes, and there’s always a need for it when it’s done so ghastly and authentic as this. Ratty, scrappy, yappy and rusty, Obscuro Heavy Metal revels in its own underground atmosphere like a rabid dog feasting on the bones of its owner.

Neil Arnold

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