Eight Foot Manchild - Do Spirits Return?

 

 

Eight Foot Manchild - Do Spirits Return?
DOOMBRASS Records – 2024
Doom, Heavy Brass
Rated: ****1/2

How about being attacked by a doom loving brass section that's not only about to kill conventions, but also your typical, traditional, slouching, four-string loving axe wielder, to take over his/her/their place in the band and run of with the drummer and guitarist (both held at gunpoint range) to produce some fierce and fiery doombrass? Fiction, you say? Not in Eight Foot Manchild's world, where baritone sax and tuba take over the bass duties and a trombone acts as if a second guitar has never been an option in the metal world.
From the first horn blow until the last thump their new ep 'Do Spirits Return?' leaves no doubt that it's doom metal with a stoner touch being played here, just not in the way we're used to. Bold, raucous and thundering brass attacks with an equally ferocious foundation of drums and guitars, rounded off by a creepy take on sludge metal vocals that grind through horror stories with a humorous edge. It's the world turned upside down and it fits Frankenstein's monster bolts to a tee. 'Do Spirits Return?' is one hell of a sonic assault that doesn't take prisoners. No, it takes us - the listeners- out at first sight (no questions asked) and buries us before we're able to blink our eyes. If we're lucky we might get summoned to roam the earth at night, devoid of our souls, but with a wild gaze, heavy limbs and locomotive imperfection.
So, to answer the album title: probably not, but I'll be begging all things horror to give Eight Foot Manchild some slack and let them come crawling out of a multitude of graves to unleash their ruthless doombrass on us converted zombies for years to come.

(Written by Ronny Dijksterhuis)

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