Spit On Your Grave "Arkanum"-Music Review, Available Now

The minute you press play and hear the first single from the new album, also the album's first track, "The Infection", this is exactly what one can expect from a band with the name Spit On Your Grave. Going straight for the jugular and the lead singer Marlene Munoz, hardly comes up for air! Around 2:40, it slows down, slightly, but still heavy in tone, then back to the throat. 

Visually the music video is just as brutal!

"The Heretic", or song 2, is not any easier on the listener as they are coming for your soul in this album!

SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is: 

Elizabeth Castillo - Bass

Caro Saturni - Lead Guitar

Kenichi Om - Rhythm Guitar

Nico Garza - Drums

Marlene Muñoz - Vocals

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 Some notes on the band from the press notes:

Arkanum is the forthcoming full length from the Mexico based death metal ensemble SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Due to be released on April 12th, 2024, this album marks a new chapter for the quintet.  

The forthcoming release, Arkanum, draws thematically on mystical elements and each track is inspired by a different tarot card. The band share, "w[e] chose 9 cards from the major arcana, (The magician, The Devil, The star, The High Priestess, The moon, The hanged Man, The tower, The hermit and Justice)".

On the meaning behind Arkanum, the band explain, "[t]his conceptual album tells the process of a mental detox, talks about an internal struggle to restore your inner self, where your demons surface and everything you believed in is questioned, that moment when you realize that for years you have followed someone else's lead. You've had enough and decide to leave everything behind." They continue, "[it's] about losing yourself by being influenced by someone else and the struggle to wake up from that 'reality'. Centering the lyrics in this inner fight with yourself, involving depression, anxiety, mistrust, feeling unfairly judged by everyone and having no help around.

In the band's sound powerful guttural voices stand out with dynamic nuances between lows and highs accompanied by blast beats, slam riffs and heavy breakdowns. The band members' virtuosity makes for a powerful show on stage.

                       

"Into The Devil's Roam" has an ongoing and very heavy bass throughout --pure and awesome heaviness! This is only song #4 and I am amazed how the band can play with such intensity throughout.

I have heard a lot of heavy metal in my days and played drums for a good portion of my life, but never at this capacity, or speed.

If you're not careful, you might find your ears bleeding from the heaviness of the album, but do turn it up!

In "Dark Lullaby" at 2:29 the song makes a significant change musically and possibly my favorite track on the album. The track is below.

                      

Unrelenting with "Broken Hourglass", the rhythm guitar, along with the drums sounds like an oncoming train that you can't escape, in 0:54, 0:58 & 1:02 seconds in the song. 

Very impressed with the overall sound of this album. This is only song #6.

                                                   

It's ok there are only 8 songs on the album, so depending on what kind of music you like, the nightmare is almost over, or, if you are like me and enjoy a great variety of music keep listening if you enjoy death metal.

This is one of the heaviest albums I have heard this year and definitely has my ears ringing, not bleeding which is always a good thing.

Overall, the music from this band is quite good and I am honestly not a big fan of death metal, but it's all over now, the album(nightmare), is over and they have a new fan with me, Yes even at 57 years old-they have recruited me into their lair of heavy music!