From Hell – Heresy

Want to add a little darkness to your day?  On June 25th, Detroit’s From Hell released their first official EP, Heresy, with the help of Paper + Plastick Records and it is exactly the prescription you need.  Heresy is comprised of seven cohesive Hardcore Punk/Black Thrash Metal tracks, laden with down-tuned guitars, monumentally robotic and technical drumming, and brutal, grinding-wheel vocals.  With a sound in the vein of bands like Converge and Black Breath, From Hell’s, Heresy will leave you with a slightly different perspective on this mortal coil and possibly an unexplainable urge to make a blood sacrifice to your friendly, neighborhood Lord of the Underworld.

The tone is set from the start by a brooding introduction track with a voice-over from none other than, the Ice Man, Richard Kuklinsky – one of the most prolific and brutal hitmen/serial killers of our time – and is then followed by six more tracks draped in the trappings of evil and dripping malevolence with song titles such as, “Holy War” and “No Place Like Hell.”  From Hell’s lyrics focus on the darkest aspects of humanity and they have composed a musical accompaniment that is both appropriate and horrifying.  This is one of those albums that is capable of making you feel bad – in a really good, “I wish I was a Servant of Beelzebub,” Death-Metal kind of way. 

In this regard, From Hell, has succeeded in producing a quality first offering.  Heresy is a unified body of music, made up of furious and frenzied sonic blasts of what the hot breath of Satan probably smells like while he is smoking clove cigarettes and torturing the pitiful souls of the Damned.  Nice work, Boys