Although based in the UK, Daphne Ang is from Singapore and Andrea Papi was born in Italy.
The duo’s stated aim on their sophomore album is to shine a ”beacon of hope for making a future that prioritises people and the environment” but the nightmarish cataloguing of blood, decay and death is more the stuff of gory horror movies. In Scum Of The Land, they envisage mankind drowning “in oceans of filth and waste.”
Combining progressive metal riffs with doom-laden poetry, track titles like Human Sacrifice, Nothing But Dust, Smell Of Your Rot and Count The Dead are not exactly overflowing with optimism for the future of humanity. Only The Chef’s Song injects some bizarre humour into proceedings.
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Politically charged lyrics are spoken by Ang or growled by Papi and while they strive for portentous profundity it all flounders under a joyless onslaught of bombast.
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