Precipice - Prophet of Doom

(Crook'd Records) www.crook-drecords.com

No, it's not doom metal, it speeds along too quickly for that. Warhorse wouldn't have even gotten their amps turned on by the time Precipice were soaking up booze and accolades at the bar. It's not black metal either, despite the goat skull n' pentagram cover. These cats play Death n' roll, in the dirtiest possible sense. Thrash riffs and hoary, deathly belching collides with a solid wall of post-stoner groove with such fury that the studio must've looked like a battlefield when they were through recording 'Prophets of Doom'. It sounds like the band were more inclined to just go ahead and punch each other in the face with fists wrapped in barbed wire than getting through a song. Righteous. There's a whole thread of posi-Paganism or some such cultish, punk fried ideals going on with these Floridian cats, as evidenced by lyrics that go on about suppressed Druids and such, which means that they're crazy as well, which helps. Who knows what really going on here, all I can say for sure is that Penance sound like they eat children and use their bones for toothpicks, and that sounds like rock and roll to me.