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Released on September 22, 2015 via Broken Limbs Recordings
The best split of 2015, the split of the century, the split to end all splits, is up for review here on Echoes and Dust courtesy of Broken Limbs Recordings. If you know Human Bodies, you’re worth your salt, lovers of the kvlt. They released one of 2014’s best albums in No Life. They join forces with Leather Chalice on this split and together set forth to set the world on fire, one nasty-smelling, punk/metalhead- inhabited bedroom at a time.
Human Bodies provides the highlight track and the punk riff that epitomizes their style on track two ‘Malice Prepense’. Track one, ‘Only the Sigh’, brings on their unique punk/black metal hybrid style. On ‘Malice Prepense’, they take the gloves off and put the steel knuckles on. To say it in a way that makes sense for you IQ-deprived punk maniacs, “You ain’t tellin’ me that the main riff on this here track don’t make you wanna headbang, dig it?” Enough said.
Well, maybe, that isn’t enough. Cuz there’s more. ‘Only the Sigh’, interestingly enough, shreds through the long overrun blades of grass with a scythe, then the aforementioned track two, ‘Malice Prepense’, takes the gasoline bottle and empties it around the cabin. I tellin’ you, Aksumite-lovin maniacs, Human Bodies is better if not as good as my Japanese brothers, so Human Bodies lights the match and the flames burn to high heaven while scorching an entire field full of poppy plants.
When Leather Chalice bring it, they do so wearing their chains like chains of gold. Add that to the stinky leather, and the friggin’ chalice, and that’s exactly what you get – Leather Chalice, dig it?
Leather Challice don’t sound like no wannabe band. Smoldering succotash. These guys bring the kvlt to the assault on your senses. Slow-build up then d-beat, punk riff sending you to high orbit, you’re as a high as a kite after hearing track three, ‘Good Intentions’. They intended well bashing our skulls in with some of this! Uh!
After the interesting decrescendo into plodding, morbid punk, hardcore mayhem, they bring on album closer track number four, ‘Last Gifts of Worship’. Listen for the high-pitched electronic squeal that sounds just like my old alarm clock when I was a teen. Screech, screech! I’m late for school! I’m late for school! “No knucklehead,” my mother says to me as I run screaming out the door. “You dropped out years ago!”
Get this split, or hell is coming loose at your punk/metalhead neighbor’s stinkin’ basement jammin’ this!
