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GHOUL
Noxious Concoctions EP

Tankcrimes (2024)
Rating: 7.5/10

It’s crazy to think that the last Ghoul album, Dungeon Bastards, emerged in 2016, so to an extent this EP just isn’t enough. Even so, with Noxious Concoctions the death-thrash terrors have returned from the grave with a solid slab of salivating gore-soaked metal.

These crazy California-based characters are the musical equivalent to watching a splatter movie; buckets of blood, a haul of murder weapons, demented killers but drippings of cheese and humour too. After a spooky intro ‘The Eyes Of The Witch’ chugs like a crusty Anthrax awash with a ripping death-thrash ethos that runs like a jagged spine throughout, even with the cover rendition of Funerot’s ‘1-900-DTH-LINE’.

Everything about the EP has that manic, fun-filled thrash excitement and energy where a crossover sensibility is never far away as gang chants fuse with scorching leads and the maniacal percussion of Fermentor. ‘Ratlicker’ chugs with such a mid-tempo groove, as does ‘Shotgun Gulch’, although frenzy is never far away on what is essentially a monster mash of maddening thrash. A new album can’t come soon enough from these masked marauders of metal mayhem.

Neil Arnold

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