SKELETON (BLACK VINYL)

Ripping forth like a dagger from the flesh of Austin Texas comes the self-titled debut album from the lone star state s new wreckers of civilization Skeleton. Having plied their black market trade for several years in grime-infested underground dungeons and sub-basements 20 Buck Spin was called forth to issue their first album a cataclysmic expansion of the band s unhallowed vision venturing well beyond it s earlier borders. Though some might be prone to lazily apply simplistic genre tags to Skeleton s style the reality is far more sweeping as this debut immediately reveals an excessively sharp metallic charged juggernaut of severe force and high plains mayhem. Contained within are war-like hymns for the soldiers of a scorched apocalypse to come from which a bleak alternate future will no doubt emerge. The eleven tracks comprising Skeleton signal the black dawn of a new breed and when the final somber strains of Catacombs close out the album an eerie sense of the end as the beginning lingers like a morbid premonition.