Greece-based Dødsferd are the kind of band that did confuse me a while ago. I could appreciate the things they did in the past (cf. the early years), though I have never been that enormously enthusiastic; let’s not exaggerate. …until 2011. The band came up with Spitting With Hatred The Insignificance Of Life (once again via Moribund) and I was truly blown away! What a cult-album! Check out the Archive-tab, May 22nd 2011-update for the review. Then my excitement cooled down once again, because last year’s The Parasitic Survival Of The Human Race (re-released earlier this year via Moribund; for the review: see update April 27th 2014) was a total turn-off. What a disappointment, what a shame.
Brings me to this two-track-EP. It was actually released in a limited edition of 300 copies shortly before the release of the band’s last full length. The first track is a new version on Dødsferd, the second one a cover song by GG Allin, sweetly entitled Bite It You Scum.
The Dødsferd-track is taken from the 2004-demo with the very same title. It’s rather in the vein of the band’s earliest efforts (yet once again, actually it is ten years of age…), provided to us, dear listeners, with a freezing Black’n’Roll-vibe that no-one can resist. What an energy, what a nice aural thing to experience. Besides, it comes with a very Punk-driven power, drenching the whole in a muddy mist of f*ck-the-world-attitude. Their latest album went this way too, but it can’t nearly be compared for this track has so much more to offer.
The GG Allin cover done by the band (Wrath (v, g), Maelstrom (d), Nadir (g), and Neptunus (b)) has been done pretty neat too. It makes this EP sound like a pure Punk-tribute from a mostly black-edged kind, which cannot be seen as an insult, like it was the case with The Parasitic Survival Of The Human Race; on the contrary. I can’t remember having heard the original before, but this shit smells, and I like to sniff on it over and over again.