Bleak, monstrously crushing slo-mo sludgecrust from Chile, which I first took notice of when I saw that the trio featured two sisters playing together (drums and bass) along with a guy on guitar. I can't help myself, I'm always interested in hearing what women are doing in extreme metal, and especially in doom, since women have been woefully underrepresented in the slow n' low circles, at least up until recently.

The only other heavy band that I have in my collection from Chile is the (amazing) prog-doom band Mar de Grises, but this is doom of an different sort. A much filthier, scabies-ridden sort. Electrozombies fuse awesomely sloppy crustcore with crawling sludge/doom riffs and a hint of black metal, and deliver their noxious fumes with a pissed-off anarchist 'tude that reminds me of some of the ratty metallic punk that was coming out of Minneapolis back in the late 1990's. You know, the whole Profane Existence scene, Misery, Assrash, Destroy, bands like that, super heavy and thrashy and distorted, more metallic sounding. Electrozombies remind me of those bands with their punk as fuck cover art of a liberty spiked punker clutching what look like bombs or balloons that seem to be melting out of his body, and they remind me of that gnarly hardcore sound whenever they put the pedal down and break out the fast, wall-of-thrash assaults. But Electrozombies also bring the sludge, BIG TIME, downshifting into ass-crushing heaviosity with massive Hellhammer/Celtic Frost inspired sludge and thick downtuned guitars that sound like their strings are barely hanging onto the fretboard, huge gooey riffs and sickly harmonizes leads oozing over the pummeling, barbaric drumbeats that hardly ever bother with anything like fills or other extraneous stuff...it's just CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH, each song about nuclear war or the mindless consumption of media (hence their name) slamming into the next with all of the finesse of a bulldozer with it's brakelines cut. They pay homage to the likes of Doom and Venom with a couple of skuzzy covers of "Police Bastard" and "Countess Bathory", respectively. Yeah, this gets top recommendation if you enjoy ugly, nihilistic, anti-authoritarian crustcore and doom as much as I do, bands like Amebix, Hellhammer, Hellbastard, Frost, Autopsy, Gallhammer, Coffins, and like-minded atavistic scumfucks. He Visto is presented in a slick six panel gatefold jacket with weird-but-cool artwork, lyrics (and everything else) in Spanish, a paper Electrozombies sticker, a hand-numbered acetate insert, and limited to 500 copies.