Angry Metal Guy<p><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/negative-13-recover-what-you-can-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Negative 13 – Recover What You Can Review</a></p><p><i>By Dolphin Whisperer</i></p><p>What is a second life but a life that has just gone on long enough to find multiple waves of success? Artists at all levels that we cover here at Angry Metal Guy HQ, often, deliver their albums to the world for the love of the game—not the glitz or glory. <strong>Negative 13</strong>, as a collective of friends, reignited their passion for the game to release 2022’s long-awaited <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/negative-13-mourning-asteri-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Mourning Asteri</em></a>, a satisfying sludge platter full of punky energy and melancholy. And this time, only three years later, <em>Recover What You Can</em> arrives in a timely and timelessly snarling manner, ready to show again how friends who suffer together come out all the stronger.</p><p>It’s uncanny how textbook sludge <strong>Negative 13</strong> hits without sounding too similar to any one big name through <em>Recover</em>. In many ways, their older origins play some part in this differentiation, with the inspiration from their sound reaching back equally to proto-acts like riff-churned <em>Into the Pandemonium</em>-era <strong>Celtic Frost</strong><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/negative-13-recover-what-you-can-review/#fn-210338-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">1</a> or early post-punky <strong>Swans</strong> as it does to NOLA groove flagbearers like <strong>Eyehategod</strong>. As such, as is necessary in well-weighted doom and sludge endeavors, <strong>Negative 13</strong> lives on the edge of amp-carved charges, finding life in a breadth of volume-driven and pedal-kissed tones. Without an abused guitar, a cranked amp, and a strained throat, <em>Recover What You Can</em> would not exist.</p><p></p><p>Though <strong>Negative 13</strong> has chosen to keep <em>Recover</em>’s run lean, they’ve not forgotten to imbue every intro, verse, chorus, and space in between with the drag and hustle of furious riffage. An unfettered, surfy twang tramples through “The Vulture Circles” to kick off a punk-sneered ripper. A crushed and gated scrawl filters and folds into monstrous chords that back a creaky, impassioned bellow (“Horizon Divides”). And borrowing tactics from a faded <strong>The Jesus Lizard</strong> playbook, <strong>Negative 13</strong> twists the longest cuts here with hissing feedback, near panic-level stabs, and frothing mouth mic abuse to bring heavyweight builds to emotional conclusions. It’s that tie to the heart that allows familiar marches and lockstep sways to resonate beyond the impact of loudness. Fervent cries to “<em>pick yourself up and dust off your bones</em>” (“The Vulture Circles”) and plaintive confessions that “<em>I’ve been here before but it never plays out the same way</em>” carry an earnest pathos that sews buzzing refrains to time-worn sleeves.</p><p></p><p><em>Recover</em> suffers a strange fate at the hands of trim desires in that certain endings and transitions feel to be lacking that same tether that the songs hold within themselves. From the introductory “The Desolate” to quick burst “Casket Trail,” it’s not immediately apparent that the remainder of the album will skip along in a more disconnected manner as those two tracks function like a classic stage-hook blast. But starting with “The Vulture Circles” through to <em>Recover</em>’s close, we’re treated to an inconveniencing array of rapid-dissolve fade outs and awkward clips. An album closing with a hard stop can still have impact, but the kind of fuzzy cut that caps off the titular conclusion feels less like a swelling halt and more like turning a corner right into a wall. After repeated spins these kinds of minor stumbles settle into a strange, if learned, flow, reducing total grief. But I do wonder whether one additional shorter form jam could have pushed <em>Recover</em> across an even more satisfying line.</p><p>In its current state, however, <em>Recover What You Can</em> boasts a strong sludge performance that wields steadfast riff construction and heartfelt lyric expulsion in grooving balance. Born of a time after the genre’s inception and revived in a world far removed from its heyday, <strong>Negative 13</strong> has remained an act discovered by happenstance—the deep (very deep) dive of a <strong>Neurosis</strong>-awakened neophyte, the Pittsburgh local who has known about them since day one, or you, dear reader, who may have seen their last output covered in these halls. Whatever the case—a curious mind of unstudied or well-read discovery—those who know of <strong>Negative 13 </strong>and long for an efficient and affective blend of doom power and punk fury will once again reap the rewards of patient and intentional output. <em>Recover What You Can</em> is unlikely to pull in the non-believers. To them we simply ask to listen and enjoy what you can.</p> <p><strong>Rating</strong>: 3.5/5.0<em><br></em><strong>DR</strong>: 6 | <strong>Format Reviewed</strong>: 256 kbps mp3<br><strong>Label</strong>: Self Release<br><strong>Websites</strong>: <a href="http://negative13.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">negative13.bandcamp.com</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063690412382" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/negativethirteen</a><br><strong>Releases Worldwide</strong>: January 24th, 2025</p><p> </p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/35/" target="_blank">#35</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/american-metal/" target="_blank">#AmericanMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/celtic-frost/" target="_blank">#CelticFrost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/doom-metal/" target="_blank">#DoomMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/eyehategod/" target="_blank">#Eyehategod</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/hardcore/" target="_blank">#Hardcore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/jan25/" target="_blank">#Jan25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/negative-13/" target="_blank">#Negative13</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sludge/" target="_blank">#Sludge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sludge-metal/" target="_blank">#SludgeMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/swans/" target="_blank">#Swans</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/the-jesus-lizard/" target="_blank">#TheJesusLizard</a></p>
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Angry Metal Guy<p><strong><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/fuckhammer-scorched-earth-prophets-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Fuckhammer – Scorched Earth Prophets Review</a></strong></p><p><i>By Mark Z.</i></p><p><em></em><em>Ha, what a stupid name, </em>I think to myself. <em>Even I can tell they’re trying too hard with that one</em>. I close my browser and go upstairs to get ready for bed. <strong>Fuckhammer</strong>. I hear the name in my head as I brush my teeth. <em>That was weird</em>, I think to myself. I go to work the next day, type something wrong, and start smashing the Backspace key. Hammering it, in fact. Like a <strong>Fuckhammer</strong>. <em>Fuck</em>, I think to myself. <em>Ge</em><em>t out of my head</em>. I go home and eat chips in the kitchen while my wife cuts vegetables for dinner. The knife slips. “Fuck!” she says. “Hammer,” I whisper to myself. “What?” she asks. But I’m lost in my own head. <em>Stop lying to yourself, Mark. </em><em>You know what you have to do.</em> And it’s true. I toss the chips on the counter, sprint to my laptop, and open the promo bin faster than a fifteen-year-old pulling up PornHub after his parents have left to run some errands. I have to claim <strong>Fuckhammer</strong> as my own. I NEED THE <strong>FUCKHAMMER</strong>.</p><p>Only, what I got wasn’t quite the nasty thrash-death-black mix I expected. Formed in 2011, this Irish quartet play a rancid concoction of sludge and death metal, complete with phlegmy rasps that sound like the vocalist is the kind of guy who eats his own scabs. Over the years, the group have put out a few minor releases and one prior album, 2013’s <em>Fucked</em>. With <em>Scorched Earth Prophets</em>, the group’s core sound has more or less stayed the same. Most of these twelve tracks are built on mid-paced rhythms and beefy, grunting riffs that carry plenty of Southern-style groove. Yet the band also throw in some odder stuff, with lots of these songs having those weird pseudo-dissonant notes that remind me of what a mid-2010s metalcore band might play right before a breakdown. “Impartial Agenda” also strays from the path, complementing its sludge-centric approach with creaky lead guitar that makes it sound like the band booked a cheap flight to the slums of New Orleans and never came home.</p><p><strong>Fuckhammer</strong> do offer some decent stuff here. The opening almost-title-track “Scorched Earth Profits” works well enough with its chugging riffs and peppy rhythms. Likewise, “Hangman’s Fracture” has a quick guitar line that carries some odd Eastern flair, and closer “Irregularities” has a slow winding riff that staggers forward like a drunkard on Bourbon Street. The catchy chugs and brief black metal foray in “Passage to the Afterworld” are also pretty enjoyable, but the best song here is easily “Curse of the Crimson Altar.” The track unleashes plenty of groove, incorporates intriguing samples in which two guys talk about the occult, and unloads some big thumping stop-start riffs that are sure to get your gut flabs flopping.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, there’s a lot that stops me from getting excited about <strong>Fuckhammer</strong>. The vocals are suitably repulsive but grow monotonous, and many of these songs either pass by without note or don’t quite stick the landing. “Unmerciful Sisters,” for instance, sounds like the band wrote half a song and called it good, while “Vexillogical Fixation” feels like it ends too abruptly. While “Brain Turbulence” mixes things up with its crusty approach and faster tempo, moments like that still aren’t enough to blow your hair back. The real problem with <em>Scorched Earth Prophets</em>, though, is a lack of character. <strong>Fuckhammer</strong> certainly know how to build a decent song and write a catchy riff, but the group simply feel far too nondescript and safe, especially for the sound they seem to be going for. Music like this begs for an unrefined, no-fucks-given approach. Yet here, the performances are largely tight and polished, and the clean, boomy production carries none of the grit an album like this needs.</p><p>When I see a name like <strong>Fuckhammer</strong>, I want fucking FILTH. I want to feel like listening to them will give me an STD that hasn’t even been discovered yet. But rather than getting too dirty, <em>Scorched Earth Prophets</em> simply offers a decent little collection of twelve songs that are respectable but not remarkable. <strong>Fuckhammer</strong> seem like a cool bunch, and <em>Scorched Earth Prophets</em> is worth a listen for those interested in exploring the lands where death and sludge don’t differ. For the rest, maybe just stick to <strong>Eyehategod</strong> and bathtub liquor the next time you need your fix of filth.</p><p></p> <p><strong>Rating</strong>: 2.5/5.0<br><strong>DR:</strong> 3 | <strong>Format Reviewed:</strong> V2 mp3<br><strong>Label:</strong> Self-Released<br><strong>Websites: </strong><a href="https://fuckhammer.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">fuckhammer.bandcamp.com</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/f666hammer/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">facebook.com/f666hammer</a><br><strong>Releases Worldwide:</strong> August 9th, 2024</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2-5/" target="_blank">#25</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/aug24/" target="_blank">#Aug24</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/death-metal/" target="_blank">#DeathMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/eyehategod/" target="_blank">#Eyehategod</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/fuckhammer/" target="_blank">#Fuckhammer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/irish-metal/" target="_blank">#IrishMetal</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/review/" target="_blank">#Review</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/reviews/" target="_blank">#Reviews</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/scorched-earth-prophets/" target="_blank">#ScorchedEarthProphets</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/self-releases/" target="_blank">#SelfReleases</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/sludge-metal/" target="_blank">#SludgeMetal</a></p>
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