Bones Offers a "Death Sentence" for Middling Death Metal (Early Track Stream)
I hate most modern death metal. I don’t say “modern” as in the sweatpants-wearing tech bands that caused Dead to blow his top but I just mean the genre in general. The OSDM trend got stale super quick and there just hasn’t been much that I’ve found to enjoy from the genre in years (your mileage obviously may and will vary). It just doesn’t move me (I don’t give a fuck) unless it has something to offer beyond copying a Finnish demo from thirty years ago. Chicago’s Bones is one such offering.
Featuring Jon Necromancer (ex-Usurper, Doomsday, etc) Bones is traditional and filthy death metal in the old Midwestern tradition. Think Master, Funeral Nation, etc. with a thick splattering of Motörhead swagger. They announced their arrival in 2011 with the self titled Bones album on Planet Metal, a debut fucking coated in shit and blood (and my favorite death metal record of the last decade) and have been lurching forward ever since. Now we bring you “Death Sentence”, the first track to be unleashed from their fourth album, Vomit, due October 28th via Disorder Design Co. “Death Sentence” brings to mind a Speckman-fronted Thin Lizzy, an ancient death metal monster waking up with a splitting hangover.
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From beginning to end, “Vomit” reeks of stale urine and Jack Daniels, attacking with more of a traditional filth-laden old metal approach that is very obviously done out of love for not only the genre but the life itself. You can hear shades of Autopsy to Tank to (early) Obituary to Iron Angel and even the boozier side of 70’s ZZ Top throughout all 9 tracks. This is a record that oozes sincerity from every grimy pore that really doesn’t fit in well with the polished sheen of what constitutes “old school death metal” these days, which makes it all the more appealing to me. This is the kind of shit that you’d see Fenriz making a video about; someone should probably pass him a copy.
Regarding “Death Sentence,” Jon Necromancer comments:
This music of this one was what I hoped would happen if half of Slaughter and half of The Varukers wrote a song together. A gross main guitar riff with me and Joe trying to push things into the sicknessphere. Carcass Chris delivers a killer lead in this one. His guitar tone really shines here. Lyrically it’s just about being hung or shot by a firing squad. As one does…
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As previously stated, “Vomit” will be released on CD and digital on October 28th via Disorder Design Co and will occupy the gutter of your record collection alongside its Chicago peers and heritage.
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