One of Australia’s most notorious acts ever must have been Sadistik Exekution, I guess. Despite their bad reputation (or is it ‘because of’?), they reached some kind of kult-status. Undersigned could (can) appreciate about everything this band did in the past. Most of the members had or have their own solo-outfits too, and the very same goes for Sadistik Exekution’s bass player Dave Slave. Under the Dave Slave moniker, he released some weird or bizarre things with quite a wide musical range, but especially his Doomed And Disgusting project gets appreciated intensively by, once again, pretty undersigned.
Anyway, during the very early 2000’s, Doomed And Disgusting released some material, among which the Satan’s Nightmare album, done in 2005 via Battlegod Productions. That album now gets re-released on vinyl via one of the most interesting labels ever, Nuclear War Now! Productions, with new artwork. And it is not an easy one to describe, nor to comprehend.
Satan’s Nightmare brings quite a bizarre form of Doom Metal, based on occult spheres, traditional elements, Punk / Death Rock details, Black / Thrash injections and ritual psychedelica. That’s quite a mouth-full of bizarrity, but listen and you’ll understand…
Actually, this material is enormously slow and obscure, with a mystic / occult / psychedelic approach, balancing in between different layers of Horror-Doom-paced Aural Art. Doomed And Disgusting has a lot to offer. There are many elements that remind undersigned to the earliest works of Opera IX, as well as the likes of Death SS, Root, Absu, Acid Witch, Hoth and Albez Duz. The album collects pieces of Doom-laden tradition with atmospheric, occult, hypnotic, psychotropic and / or abysmal to create a mostly wretched, magic, mysterious sonic world of post-dimensional glory / grotesquery. It’s bizarre for sure, yet at the same time enormously attractive too, without losing itself into empty-headed superficiality or cheap catchiness. And ignore the lack of variation in between the songs (most of them are based on quite same-minded structures, melodies, intentions); in its totality, Satan’s Nightmare cracks nuts… the slow, painful way…
The label mentions a mixture of (mighty) Goatlord, (also mighty) Hellhammer, and (well, why not: mighty) Doom Snake Cult… I do not totally disagree, though I think the combination of my and their comparisons might reveal a tip…
Anyway, if you like horrific Doom-laden Metal / Rock with an old styled punkish attitude, loads of occult thematical references, and a theatrical stiff middle finger in the air identity, defined out from a mostly darkened and grim heart, then you will, and so on, and so on…