GHOUL Dungeon Bastards (2016) Vinyl LP

Ten years into their career, Ghoul were still masked, still refusing interviews, and still writing records that sound like a crossover thrash band raised in a dungeon by sentient VHS tapes.

Dungeon Bastards from 2016 is the logical endpoint of everything Ghoul had been building, tighter song structures without losing any of the splatter, horror concept intact, riffs per minute still in the red. The Creepsylvanian mythology that runs through their catalogue reaches something close to a payoff here, if payoff means more screaming and a surprisingly catchy death/thrash anthem buried in the middle of the record. Pick this up on splatter vinyl and feel appropriately smug about it at your next listening session. Pairs well with a dark aesthetic and a deep knowledge of underground metal history.

LP full length on splatter vinyl. US origin, 2016 release. Genre: death metal, thrash metal, grindcore.

Fans of: Ghoul, Toxic Holocaust, Nails, Power Trip.