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AKSUMITE  The Gleam Of Wetted Lips  CASSETTE   (Colloquial Sound Recordings)   6.00
The Gleam Of Wetted Lips IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Only have a handful of these and it's now out of print. Aksumite is one of the killer black metal-influenced punk bands on the Colloquial Sound tape label, and this was (I believe) their first cassette for the label. It's a grimy, somewhat hysterical, and very low-fi sound that jams a primitive black metal influenced attack through a blunt hardcore assault, a style that I can't get enough of right now when it's played with this level of sonic mayhem and ugliness. The tape kicks off with an ominous doom-laden intro of creeping guitar melody and lumbering stop-start drums awash in shimmering feedback and amp buzz, then it blasts off into the raw blackened thrashpunk of "No Soil Overturned In The Master's Field", the swarming two-chord riffs drenched in reverb, the band alternating between full-tilt hardcore velocity and bashing out a noisy, anthemic breakdown, the whole recording slathered in excessive reverb that gives this a huge cavernous feel. The singer has a real wild vocal delivery, his killer possessed vocals served up in a psychotic mess of slobbering, vomiting screams and howling delay-drenched insanity. The band rip into the thrashing blackened hardcore of "Endlessly, Remorselessly", with it's bizarre vocal effects and noisy recording, and the intense catchy HC of "Laid Bare Upon The Stone", the song laced with ferocious blast beats and chugging, warped thrash parts, the guitars dissonant and filled with jangling, clanging chords. "Blood Cult" tangles up a mess of Celtic Frost worship, sloppy blackthrash, and D-beat speedfreakery, and "Particles Of Faith" drops more of their blazing black metal riffing into big whacks of sludge-riddled heaviness, leading up to the closing outro where they end the tape with a reprise of eerie clean guitars and slow, pounding drums from the first track. I really dug Aksumite's howling blackened hardcore on this tape, it's right in there with bands like Willing Feet, Ives, even the newer Darkthrone stuff, but with more of an awkward rhythmic twitchiness. If the other tapes on Colloquial Sound have moved you, this will too, and fans of Primal Vomit's black metal/punk aesthetic should check Aksumite out as well. Manufactured on blood-red cassettes and released in a hand-numbered edition of one hundred copies...


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