Nekrofilth: Worm Ritual (2018)

Here is another typical Hells Headbangers band.  Nekrofilth plays an unholy concoction of death, thrash and hardcore punk with psychotic zeal.  The band is a power trio featuring a former member of both Nunslaughter and Crucified Mortals and two members of Weapönizer.  They have been around for more than ten years and have put out a number of releases, yet just two full-length albums.  This is the second of those full-lengths.

Nekrofilth is basically a dirtier and rawer version of Toxic Holocaust.  Where Joel Grind's band has the benefit of being on a decent-sized metal label with a little more money for production costs, Nekrofilth has no such advantages.  The resulting music sounds nasty and extremely angry and grimy.  The band's lyrics also fall into this extreme filth, with tracks like "Severed Eyes" and "They Took My Skin" showing that subtlety is completely out the window here. 

The Venom and Motörhead influences are obvious here.  The band even covers "Poison" by Venom.  The riffs are generally just the same kind of dirty punk-infused riffs those bands built their careers upon in the early 1980's, only covered in so much distortion and reverb to sound utterly disgusting. 

This album is a lot of fun.  It's fast and short at just a hair over 30 minutes in length, just the kind of thing to get the blood pumping during a workout.  Hopefully we don't have to wait another six years for another full-length.  Nekrofilth is playing at a concert I am considering attending in early June.  This album helps make that decision a little clearer.