Sign of Evil - Psychodelic Horror

Chilean black metal is a truly special and magical thing. There's always a unique blend of influences that serve to make for unique listening and distinct soundworlds. The debut seven inch from Sign Of Evil, Psychodelic Horror is a perfect example of this with creepy synths and brutarian stomps coming together to make for one hell of a record. The dungeon basement level production and clear dedication to underground ideals serves to make the record dynamic and interesting, a twisted offering driven by its own sense of forward motion.

There is something endlessly appealing to me about a track like 'Horror' with its crazed guitar work and blasting drums. Yes there are elements of psychedelia but the demonic remonstrances of Sign Of Evil go so much further than that. Psychodelic Horror is aware of its own inherent silliness. There's a typo in the album title for Satan's sake! But this is exactly what makes this type of music so valuable - it revels in its own madness and gives fans someting that evokes that inner fifteen year old. Sign Of Evil understand the magic in the metal and that there is metal in us all. Sure this is jsut a seven inch, but it's one that gets to the spirit of the underground.

With nary a single track bleeding over the two minute and thirty second mark, this record is an ADHD kids delight. One idea barely has a chance to sink in before they are off to the races with the next song. Psychodelic Horror may at times border on the primitive, but sometimes primitive is a good thing, sometimes its exactly what you need to remind you that there still is energy and power in the underground. So storming out of Chile Sign Of Evil bring true hate, and I fucking love every moment of it.

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