Watch Them Die
“Self-Titled”
(Century Media)
This is a death metal band. I’m getting mighty sick of record labels trying to call their death metal anything and everything but death metal. I have this promo cd case here and it says Watch Them die are “blurring the lines between bay area thrash, grindcore, crust, punk and metal.” What a load of shit. They’re blurring the lines between nothing.
Record label propaganda goons are blurring the lines between a verbose sack of crap and a garrulous barrel of shit. Just call it death metal. It has fast guitars, growling and shrieking vocals, and the drumming you’d expect from a DEATH METAL band. The only thing not fully death metal about them is the tinny production. This sounds like it was recorded by a deaf mute in a tin zeppelin hangar.
Production aside, Watch Them die have one hell of a combustible debut album on their hands. It’s sharp, succinct and scintillating. So if you like death metal, then check it out.
