Those who appreciate Mortician & cult slasher/horror/sci-fi movies are going to swoon over Canadian duo Casket Slime’s upcoming third LP, “Enter The Casket”.
Active since 2020, they’ve put out a demo, two LPs & split with Rotten Brain. Compared to previous releases, deliberately base writing solely around a horror movie sample as initiated in “They Sleep We Creep” on songs like “Horror Rising”, then elongated them on shorter LP “Take a Bite”, sample being eerie “Season of Rot”, but this time around present fifteen tracks worth forty minutes of blood curdling afflictions.
Art by Lucas V, shows components of abhorrence, including a casket of skeletal remains in chartreuse goop surrounded by tentacles & pointy claws with a demonic thorned figure standing over, favorite detail is the VHS tapes as well as the color scheme.
⅔ include snipets, either at start or end, from flicks such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Pumpkinhead & Starship Troopers, yet a handful such as “Soggy Water Zombie” & “Hillbilly Murder Shack” are omitted of samples. These guys are dedicated to keeping a gritty, unvarnished, trenchant texture in their writing & while some get annoyed with samples, they merge thrashy, Crossover, Death Metal mix, without drum programming being absurdly saturated in distortion & excessive blasting, resonating speakers being blown out.
Favored ones with audio clips is “Grave Premonitions”, excerpt from Demons, quirky composition with the programming, groovy, catchy & simply amusing riffs to match with the daunting snarled cadence and the other being “Damien, It’s All For You”, chilling sample from The Omen, memorable divulgent bass line around midway point. Best without clips are “Brain Waves” portraying foreboding riffs that resemble analog glitches anticipating the worst & “Tomb of The Damned”, arrangement is facile but resilient, ideal depiction of what these guys are about.
Casket Slime continually delivers, best yet! (Tori Belle)
