Album Review: Goat Necropsy - Bloody and Fresh
Reviewed by Carl Black
When a Brazilian band breaks through everyone sits up and pays attention. You don’t want to miss the next Sepultra and we all wanted to be there when they played the Marquee for the first time and blow the headliners away. But that was getting on for 30 years ago and as far as blowing major, established artist away in a support situation goes, we can all stand down. Goat Necropsy will sit happily on any death/gore/splatter (apparently splatter is a thing) with many other bands at any all-dayer, properly at the Black Heart in Camden.
W. Johann and Vic Ferreira are the masterminds behind Goat Necropsy. They have been studying their craft and sharpening their skills in all the right places, including Rock in Rio. Within 'Bloody and Fresh' we get the full treatment of pig squeal vocals set over meaty riffs with inhumanly fast drums. Unfortunately, Goat Necropsy commit the cardinal sin. The drums go fast but the guitar is not, its four times as slow and the songs only have the illusion of being fast. At times the riff remains the same but the drums change direction more times than a hipster changes trousers. Ironically it's when they slowdown that we get to hear some proper brutality, but this is not the name of their game. Do you have to remain as gruesome and as fast as you can, to stay in the game?
This will pass a lot of people by, and with good reason. This is a kite in a hurricane with regards to this particular market. I heard some green shoots of real, unique, promise but I believe they will only achieve that promise if they forget the cliché attached to this type of music and focus on powerful riffs and decent songs that I know they can write.
