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Witch Vomit: Funeral Sanctum (2024)

After a lifetime of listening to this music, heavy metal bands don't trigger my interest for any specific reason, but rather a random combination of sonic attributes that happen to suit my highly selective, to not say outrageously demanding, personal tastes.

Witch Vomit recently fit that extremely narrow lane with their third long-player, Funeral Sanctum -- not because they try to reinvent the wheel, let alone take the anthropological path to the style's prehistoric days -- just ... because.

Don't worry, I'll be more specific in a moment ...

Formed in Portland, OR, just over a decade ago, by T.T. (a.k.a. Tempter: vocals, guitar real name Tony Thomas) and V.V. (a.k.a. Filth: drums, born Vincent Van Dell), they later recruited bassist J.G. (that's it, just J.G.) and, in '17, second guitarist C.S. (Casey Lynch).

By then, Witch Vomit had already produced a demo, a single, an EP, and an LP (2016's A Scream from the Tomb Below), which they followed with another EP and LP ('19's Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave), that really got tongues wagging on their behalf.

Alas, a certain global pandemic and a half-decade came and went (notwithstanding yet another EP and single) before the quartet reemerged with '24's Funeral Sanctum, at which point their pernicious brand of death metal with melodic sensibilities and black metal accoutrements finally got its hooks in me.

The latter manifest in the demonic lyrics, blast-beats, and tremolo-picking spraying all over frenzied highlights like "Serpentine Shadows" and "Decaying Angelic Flesh," but even these numbers incorporate deliberate passages to offset that intensity.

Perhaps the most recurring word used to describe Witch Vomit's music is "filthy," and while I'm not one to disagree (I've certainly heard filthier), I think this sells short T.T.'s tastefully melodious guitar work on personal favorites like "Black Wings of Desolation" and "Dominion of a Darkened Realm."

And while the band is also frequently characterized as "old school," I myself prefer "timeless," because the title track, "Endless Fall," and "Blood of Abomination," don't necessarily recall the early '90s pioneers so much as reflect death metal's simpler origins, pre-experimental diaspora.

In fact, simpler and shorter is the order of the day here, as an instrumental intro ("Dying Embers"), an interlude ("Abject Silence"), and a minute-long sprint ("Endarkened Spirits") bring the album to an end in a lean and mean half-hour.

Now that right there REALLY appeals to both my ever-shortening patience and my current lifestyle, because dad can only spare so much time for his scary, cookie monster music, while trying to raise two humans.

... Says the parent listening to bands called Witch Vomit.

More Third Millennium Metal: 3 Inches of Blood’s Battlecry Under a Winter Sun, Ancient Death's Ego Dissolution, Baroness’ Red Album, Behold! The Monolith’s Defender/Redeemist, Bison B.C.’s Dark Ages, Black Cobra’s Feather and Stone, Blood of Kingu's Sun in the House of the Scorpion, Blue Aside’s The White Staff Burned by the Blue Sun, Bütcher’s 666 Goats Carry My Chariot, Deftones’ White Pony, Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone, Ghastly’s Mercurial Passages, God Dethroned’s The Toxic Touch, Hedonist's Scapulimancy, High On Fire’s Surrounded by Thieves, Inter Arma’s Paradise Gallows, Into Eternity’s The Scattering of Ashes, Isen Torr’s Mighty & Superior EP, Killswitch Engage’s Alive or Just Breathing, Lacuna Coil's Karmacode, Lair of the Minotaur’s The Ultimate Destroyer, Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake, Mastodon’s Leviathan, Oranssi Pazuzu’s Valonielu, Power Trip’s Nightmare Logic, Rwake’s Rest, Saviours’ Into Abaddon, Skeletonwitch’s Beyond the Permafrost, Solothus’ Realm of Ash and Blood, Spectral Voice’s Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, The Sword’s Age of Winters, System of a Down’s Toxicity, Tool’s Lateralus, Trivium’s Ascendancy, Ulthar’s Cosmovore, Unearthly Trance’s In the Red, Vattnet Viskar’s Settler, Vektor’s Terminal Redux, Warbringer’s War Without End, Zemial’s Nykta.

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Best of Black Sabbath

by Various Artists

Earthless - Never Say Die                                                                                   

Caustic Casanova - Wicked World                                                  

Summoner - A National Acrobat                                                                           

Black Electric - Sweet Leaf                   

Rwake - The Rwrit                                                                                              Ginsburg/Margera/Reeder/Rota - N.I.B.

 Year of the Cobra - Planet Caravan  

Hippie Death Cult - Fairies Wear Boots                                                             Leather Lung - Hole in the Sky                                                                              Mooner - The Wizard                                                                                           

Howling Giant - Lord of this World                                                          

Elephant Tree - Paranoid                                                                                    Brume - Solitude                                                                                                  

Saint Karloff - Sleeping Village                                                           

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Recent music purchases from Amoeba in SF 🤠

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20173

I have never liked sludge or doom metal, it was always too slow or went on for too long however it’s starting to grow on me. I especially like Rwake, Kylesa, Windhand, Dark Castle and Jucifer, all which are female fronted (except Rwake, I think she just does backing vocals sometimes) I anyone has any other recommendations send them in!

[thosemiles]

Honored to support one of my biggest influences @scottneurosis on the best stage of my country! I simply can't imagine a better way to start 2018. Or start anything. Or finish everything. #scottkelly #neurosis #johnjudkins #rwake #TheDevilsTrade #RebelAgainstMainstream #HappyMusicIsShit #LeftHandPath #budapest (helyszín: A38 Hajó)