Hatebeak
Hatebeak: "Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low it’ll make you vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme, they can’t be human. They’re not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer takes your head off with two stabs to the throat. That’s right, a parrot for a singer, coming at you without mercy, Hatebeak pecks your eyes out and assaults your ears in a flurry of pummeling riffs and grey feathers that leaves you lying in a pool of blood begging for more. The first metal band in history with an avian vocalist!"
The cover of the 7" is an homage to Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance and you get two Hatebeak songs: "Beak of Putrefaction" and "God of Empty Nest." The first pressing of the record has sold out. Man, why didn't we get these sorts of things when eP was in its full metal days? Oh, right, it hadn't been done yet. Still, almost worth coming out of hiatus to review this one.
Speaking of metal and eP, Sabrina Haines' Underground Metal Primer, while five years old now, is still an educational read, especially for old farts like me for whom the metal pendulum has swung back into "acceptable listening" again.
[Thanks, Craig, for the Hatebeak link. We're still laughing about it at home.]