FROM "HEAD-BANGER REVIEWS"
You just hear a band’s sound and just think about how fucking much
stuff is going on in the music itself? Bands like Whispered and Inter
Arma truly take that to another level with their music and actually make
it work somehow. And bands like that make me think when I’m going to
find another one like them who can do so much and do it well. As it
turns out, that time is right now and that fucking band is Hazzard’s
Cure from the renowned Bay Area.
If I could just lean on another metal website for just a moment,
Echoes and Dust called the sound that Hazzard’s Cure “speed doom”.
Apparently, that’s a thing now? Sounds a little contradicting if you
ask, but fuck me in the Alps if it isn’t an extremely apt phrase. But
the brand spankin’ new record of “Smoke Iron Plunder” is so much more
than those two words, though. Hazzard’s Cure manages to glean an
absolute fuck ton from multiple metal sub-genres including (but
absolutely not limited to) black, stoner, doom, and even sludge metal to
create something is very close to the definition of an absolute mind
fuck. “Smoke Iron Plunder” is a quick, unrelenting, and diverse album
that does not even begin to back off on its unbelievable onslaught. The
vocals are where things truly go up a notch, for they’re just so fucking
vicious and a constant attack on your hearing that it’s impossible to
deny the immeasurable power they bring to the table, and how well they
help tie “Smoke Iron Plunder” together in the end. The record is just so
monumental and apparently comes from a band that is at the forefront of
this speed doom style that’s a thing all of a sudden, but damn if I’m
complaining! Hazzard’s Cure is a brilliant breath of fresh air that as
someone who constantly searches for something even half decent to listen
to, “Smoke Iron Plunder” is a bright light in the darkness, albeit a
very dastardly and menacing presence.
As if there weren’t enough crazy sub-genres out there with pirate and
samurai metal to name but two, now we get speed doom in a very tasty
and extremely foreign entity that is Hazzard’s Cure. “Smoke Iron
Plunder” is not anything for the uninitiated and is something to be
experienced only by those who truly do want to know what it’s like to
have the lines of any sort of genre classification blurred to a
previously unfathomable point.
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