Monday 14 January 2013

Lucifer's Hammer - The Burning Church (1992, Demo) Review

A decent effort by this U.S. band. Fairly inventive downtuned riffage changes into slow, doomy power chords throughout. Bass is only audible as bass; no treble in there, though it does have a little solo (literally a few notes) in the title track. Drums change style throughout the demo, adding real colour to the riffs, and have a raw feel to the snare drum (similar to Quorthon's on the Octagon album by Bathory). The whole demo tape is quite dark: there are sound clips of dripping water, some mock-satanic speech, then of burning (what we can assume is a church). There's a nice solo at the start of Burning Church, too. The vocal approach of Todd Cushman, the singer of L.H., is somewhere between James Read of Conqueror and Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust. I recommend this to any fans of the early Church Bizarre stuff, and to fans of Blasphemy and early Archgoat. 

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http://www.4shared.com/rar/-jBRD-M2/Lucifers_Hammer_-_The_Burning_.html?

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