Viral Tyrant – Vultures Like You

 

 

Viral Tyrant – Vultures Like You
Ripple Music – 2023
Doom, Sludge, Metal, Black, Thrash
Rated: ****

The four named Viral Tyrant hail from Portland, Oregon and immediately got signed by Ripple Music. Which means their debut album Vultures Like You must be quality stuff! Another testament to that fact is the name of Rob Wrong, from Witch Mountain and The Skull listed as producer and that the album has been mastered by Tad Doyle from TAD. Getting legends like that on board for your debut record, well, you’ve got to have something special going on. And they do! As the ominous, slow classic doom start opener The Felling Of The Doom Tree turns into something more vicious and dirtier, you feel it surging through your bones, the certain knowledge you will be treated to something different, wild, and wonderful. Feral, fierce, and frantic the track takes on different colors as the nine and a half minutes maraud through your neighborhood. The Felling Of The Doom Tree will keep tickling all your classic metal feelers; and constantly taking that energy, making it harsher and edgier before loosening the reigns again.  But be warned! They never slacken for long… And you might just get your head cut off by the razor sharp, barbarian axe swinging riffs that will surely follow! Viral Tyrant delivers some severe sludge, doom, and thrash! All blackened, twisted and almost burned to charcoal, but actually scorched to the exact amount to make Vultures Like You dive on that sun blistered corpse as if it was the most delicious feast you ever set eyes on…

(Written by JK)

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