Negative-Existence - ACCUSED, The "Oh Martha!" LP

ACCUSED, The "Oh Martha!" LP
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Artist: ACCÜSED

Title: Oh Martha!

Format: LP

Country: USA

Genre: Crossover / Thrash

Record Label: Unrest Records

This is a black vinyl version licensed from the Condor Records 'Oh Martha!' CD release in 2004. This triumphant record heralds The Return of the Splatter Rock Kings, to their terrifyingly-sick ways. For the entire length of this Splatter-Drenched LP, The ACCUSED prove the crown still fits. Founding member and guitarist, Tommy Niemeyer says, "Oh Martha! is easily one of the top 2 albums we've done. It was intentionally written with the knowledge that we raised the bar for ourselves over 10 years earlier. So I said, let's fucking kick this album's ass!..and we did.' Cover art for this Unrest Records pressing was drawn by Tommy Niemeyer himself, in pure Splatter Rock fashion! Martha Lives!!!

Tracklisting:

Side A
Martha Will
Fueled by Hate
Crapassreality
Fast Zombies Rule
Dying on the Vine
Hooker Fortified Pork Products
Life Kills On
National Embalming School
Filth Hounds Of Hades

Side B
Stay Dead
Scream and Die
Of the Body
13 Letters
Have You Ever Been Mellow?
Distractions
Martha Splatterhead
Slow Death
Take My Time
Fuckin' for Bucks

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Review:

[metalcrypt]Re-forming and re-appearing again after a hefty 14 year absence, The Accused successfully soar back onto the old Bay Area crossover scene with their very own brand of 'Splatter Rock' with this, their seventh release 'Oh Martha'. Martha, of course, being a certain Ms Splatterhead herself, the band's gory-headed mascot (the cross-over world equivalent of Iron Maidens Eddie I suppose).

Sprinkled throughout with samples of horror movies similarly to Mortician and with similarly themed lyrics to match, The Accused haven't changed their thrashy roots one iota from day one, sounding like a cross between DRI and Exodus (vocally, very much like ex-Exodus vocalist Steve Souza in fact!). Speed-ridden thrashing guitars and a pounding bass heavy rhythm sections are abound, recalling Municipal Waste one more than one occasion, and not just due to the great production job. The gang vocals and insane thrash of 'Life Kills On', could quite easily have been a song missed off of Anthrax's 'Among the Living', and the quality of song writing is pretty much consistent throughout too, which is pretty surprising for a band that hasn't released an album for years (that said, I guess they've had plenty of writing time!).

Anyhow, if the thrashier side of cross-over still floats your boat, and the resurgence of bands like the aforementioned Anthrax is your bag, you could do a lot worse than picking this savage little blood spattered rottweiler up to revive that old Bay Area feeling in your heart.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 April, 2010.