Flush It Friday: Noosed Tape in the Deck
Bang it so hard make ya Cell ya Press.
After a lengthy hiatus and the reformation of the band as Andy Kang’s solo act, London’s Skeletal Serpent returns with 5 new minutes of cavern-crusted, subterranean-slicked, hypogean-husked death/doom. We were introduced to the band’s 2018 debut EP via the inclusion of “Skeletal Remains” on the Worldwide Organization of Metalheads Against Nazis compilation. Incantatory and reverential, Skeletal Serpent’s newest demonstration “Ritual of the Living Seal” is a dedication to three figures whose work figure directly or indirectly in the song’s crunching death metal riffs as well as the dark solemnity of its doomier passages. Hopefully more is forthcoming from the band!
It is perhaps no surprise that Cell Press’s Tabula Rasa, mixed as it is by Scott Evans, has the DNA of Kowloon Walled City splattered all over the trio’s approach to heavy, sludgy noise rock. Tinged, too, with the off-kilter hardcore of Knut and KEN Mode as well as the riffy, hooky goodness of early Helms Alee, Cell Press deserves a much wider audience. From the turbo-powered “Hot Rod to Gehenna” through the chugging, roiling “Last Aid Kit” to the bad vibes of “Orphan-Crushing Machine,” Tabula Rasa has “EP of the Year” written all over it. The hypetrain is a-whistlin’!
Galway’s Noosed has a new EP, getting the Fiadh treatment on appropriately black-shelled cassette. Misery is a little over 10 minutes of grinding Xibalba-esque death/sludge. Tracks like “Fuck the Church” have a tasty Swedish d-beat flavour, while the standout “Floating Coffins” is a brawny, stripped-down slugfest that won’t stop throwing haymakers. After the war waged across the first 6 tracks, the 4 gruesome minutes of closer “No Return” delve into the struggles of addiction. “We find ourselves in a world unkind to nostalgists and futurists alike,” writes Anton Jäger, but, as Noosed will remind you, “we are not yet hanged.”
Let’s flush!
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Live Photos: A Wilhelm Scream with La Armada @ Cobra Lounge, Chicago (4/30/26)
A short week but a deep week. Hope y’all are groovin’ ‘n movin’. Hugs and kisses. Share your GBUs below. (I know I’ve already used something like this title before. Save it.)
