Macabre's new EP, a slight change from 2003's "Murder Metal" but the Macabre we all know is back. They do a Venom cover, which personally is the low point of this release for me, but it's still a decent cover. I've just already listened to the original and Sigh cover of this particular song to death. "The Big Bad Wolf" is great, and if this is the tone of the next release (due out later in the year, which can only mean very soon) then I think we're all in for a treat.
Artist: Macabre Album: Human Monsters Year: 2010 Genre: Murder metal, thrash, death metal Quality: VBR (high)
1. Dracula - 5:12 2. The Big Bad Wolf - 4:07 3. Countess Bathory (Venom cover) - 3:30 4. The Bloody Benders - 2:53
Macabre's most recent release, now six years old, is just as entertaining as when it first dropped. Though they pretty much only play shows around the Chicago area, we can always look forward to them (one day, someday) playing at a festival outside of Illinois. High production value like "Dahmer," an even louder, sharper and violent sound than before, and even more humor, this is it. "Jack The Ripper" is a song comprised completely of a letter said killer sent to the London police. "The Wüstenfeld Man Eater" is about Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who put a want ad in the newspaper looking for a young man to be eaten, also the subject of a song by Rammstein called "Mein Teil." "The Iceman" is about hired hitman Richard Kuklinski, a Polish guy who couldn't be made by the mob so he was just contracted instead. My favorites off this are "The Hillside Strangers," "The Iceman," "The Wüstenfeld Man Eater" and "Morbid Minister."
Artist: Macabre Album: Murder Metal Year: 2003 Genre: Death metal, thrash metal, "murder metal" Quality: 320kbps (very high)
1. Acid Bath Vampire (John George Haigh) - 3:43 2. You're Dying To Be With Me (Dennis Nilsen) - 2:44 3. Fatal Foot Fetish (Jerry Brudos) - 2:08 4. The Hillside Stranglers (Angelo Buono, Jr. & Kenneth Bianchi) - 1:39 5. Dorthea's Dead Folks Home (Dorthea Puente) - 1:10 6. The Iceman (Richard Kuklinski) - 2:45 7. Poison (Graham Frederick Young) - 1:52 8. Werewolf Of Bedburg (Peter Stumpp) - 4:29 9. Morbid Minister (Gary M. Heidnik) - 1:28 10. The Wüstenfeld Man Eater (Armin Meiwes) - 3:10 11. Diary Of Torture (Robert Berdella) - 2:15 12. Jack The Ripper (Jack The Ripper) - 4:08 13. Fritz Haarmann Der Metzger (Fritz Haarmann) - 12:50
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"The Iceman"
"The Hillside Strangers" (ignore the over-seriousness of this 'slideshow')
1993's Macabre breakthrough album "Sinister Slaughter," hard for many to access and a favorite among many others. A collection of songs about various killers, murderers, psychopaths and rageaholics throughout time from the Zodiac Killer to Richard Speck to Albert Fish and Charles Whitman. I do not have a single track on here I don't like, but my personal favorite is "Vampire Of Düsseldorf," about Peter Kurten, a serial killer from Germany who struck the hardest in 1929, killing a wide range of people from an 8-year old girl to a middle-aged mechanic and at least 7 others with 9 attempts at murder. He would stab most to death and said at his trial that it was purely of a sexual nature; that the excessive stab wounds on certain victims were because it took longer to achieve an orgasm. Anyways, the song itself has a catchy piano opening and the chorus is also by far the catchiest for me. "Sniper In The Sky" is about Charles Whitman, the man who killed 14 people at the University of Texas in 1966 from the tower and observation deck of an administrative building. I made sure to list which killer each song is about because they are each interesting reads. The album cover is a parody of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club," with celebrities' heads replaced by notorious killers. One of my favorite album covers ever. Enjoy!
Artist: Macabre Album: Sinister Slaughter Year: 1993 Genre: Thrash metal, grind, death metal, "murder metal" Quality: 320kbps (very high)
1. Nightstalker (Richard Ramirez) - 2:06 2. The Ted Bundy Song (Ted Bundy) - 1:19 3. Sniper In The Sky (Charles Whitman) - 1:51 4. Montreal Massacre (Marc Lépine) - 1:26 (note: he is noted as Mark Lupine on any Macabre-related site and on the CD, but this is the official French-Canadian listing for this person) 5. Zodiac (Zodiac Killer) - 3:46 6. James Pough, What The Hell Did You Do?! (James Edward Pough) - 2:10 7. The Boston Stranger (Albert DeSalvo) - 1:10 8. Mary Bell (Mary Bell) - 0:44 9. Mary Bell (Reprise) (Mary Bell) - 0:46 10. Killing Spree (Postal Killer) (Patrick Sherrill) - 1:22 11. Is It Soup Yet? (Daniel Rakowitz) - 1:19 12. White Hen Decapitator (Michael Bethke) - 2:31 13. Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?!) (Howard Unrah) - 2:29 14. Gacy's Lot (John Wayne Gacy) - 2:21 15. There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane (Jack Gilbert Graham) - 2:10 16. Vampire Of Düsseldorf (Peter Kürten) - 2:43 17. Shotgun Peterson (Christopher Peterson) - 2:49 18. What's That Smell? (Jeffrey Dahmer) - 3:02 19. Edmund Kemper Had A Horrible Temper (Edmund Kemper) - 2:35 20. What The Heck, Richard Speck (Eight Nurses You Wrecked) (Richard Speck) - 2:05 21. Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea (Albert Fish) - 1:35
