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| SPEEDWHORE was
formed in Munich by Tim Kuntze and Johannes Mikulits in 2006. What
started as an alcohol-induced joke soon took its own course when, soon
after, SPEEDWHORE had their first rehearsals with a quickly expanded
lineup. Three demos followed (one unreleased) as well as two singles
and constant gigs in the ever-thriving German underground. But it was
the bands debut album, The Future is Now released in 2015 by the
cult label Witches Brew that truly put SPEEDWHORE on the metal map,
featuring as it did an odd-yet-endearing mix of thrash, black metal,
and traditional heavy metal. An EP and a split 7 followed before Tim
moved to Berlin and revamped the band completely. With the lineup
filled out by Alexander Pusch, Leonhard Link, and Marcel Cording,
SPEEDWHORE started to have national and international gigs again, and
this lineup released their first output on a tribute album to Japans
legendary Sabbat as well as another split 7. Road-tested by yet more
gigs, the revamped SPEEDWHORE make their full-length debut with
Visions of a Parallel World. At once sounding strikingly SPEEDWHORE
and incredibly reinvigorated, the bands second album takes that
odd-yet-endearing mix to grander, grimier levels. On the surface, much
of Visions of a Parallel World could soundtrack a heavy metal drinking
party
but listen closely and one will detect unique twists of
atmosphere and a more idiosyncratic approach to songwriting that
jointly put SPEEDWHORE in a whole new realm (or a rarefied one
populated by such idiosyncratic cults as fellow Germans Witching Hour
or Slovenian labelmates VIGILANCE). The nine-song/39-minute album
charges hard and charges in many directions, but always forward and
abyss-ward, and the filth freely washes over you as a ghostly fog of
ancient terror simultaneously casts its spell. The supremely grainy &
old-school yet spacious production skillfully enhances this sensation
and further lends an air of the archaic to proceedings, but rest
assured that true HEAVY METAL physicality is present and accounted
for. Call Visions of a Parallel World, then, a heavy metal drinking
party where dread portals are also opened. Equally suited to the
streets and castles, SPEEDWHORE fire up the motorbikes and evoke
Visions of a Parallel World. black vinyl, with insert, poster,
sticker, post card, download code Tracks:
Genres: Black Metal, Thrash Metal |  | |||||||||||||
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