Title: Crimson Lies
Genre: Thrash'n'Roll with Stoner influences
Year: 2016
Time: 13 min
Rating: 69/100
Though your favorite ‘zine (or, at least, I hope so…) is always in search of the most extreme metal bands of this fuckin’ world, this time it’ll talk about a band with a “softer” sound. So, today it’s the turn of Dripping Sin, a Calabrian quartet founded during the Summer of 2012 by the singer/bassist Giando Sestito and the guitarist Tommaso Mellace to play a kind of raw thrash metal influenced by Venom and Sodom. Hence, after the very aggressive and dark EP “Sorceress of Evil” released in 2014, here you are again Dripping Sin with another self-released EP, this time titled “Crimson Lies” (12th March 2016) which shows a very different approach citing influences that ranges from rock’n’roll to punk/HC through stoner. Now see how the band has changed its own sound.
The first
song “Wish (I Was Dead in My Sleep)” is surely the most violent of the entire
EP. In fact, it destroys our auricles with a non-stop thrashing metal madness,
very simple and dark but containing a rock’n’roll guitar solo able to
personalize the music in a good way.
The things
starts to change seriously with the following “Bad News”, a thrash’n’roll
mid-tempo that get the ass moving with a fantastic groove due also to the
drummer Vincenzo Raynal. But there is also a fast thrash part made to unleash
the guitar solo of the track at a breackneck speed.
Now the
moment has arrived for the alcoholic “Beerocracy”, which I consider to be the
better song of the EP. In fact, the vivacious “Beerocracy” represents the new
Dripping Sin at their best with their thrash’n’roll full of a groove able truly
to infect the buttocks of the listeners showing also strong stoner influences.
In addition of this, the band has utilized very well the length of this track
(4 minutes than the 2 minutes of the first 2 songs) to develop it in a more
unpredictable and less immediate way than the usual.
Finally,
there is “ALC Till Death”, that’s, in my opinion, the weaked link of the entire
EP. This because it is sketchy due to a long and strangely slow central part
that makes the song a bit weak. But fortunately, the rest of it is ok, thanks
to the contagious groove now typical of the band. Very mentionable is the long
intro of the song where the two guitarists Tommaso Mellace and Gianmarco
Marcello erupt their own virtuoso fantasies with a series of good solos.
So, we are
in presence of a very promising band, also if it is a shame that the last song
of “Crimson Lies” isn’t entirely convincing. But Dripping Sin are slowly developing
their own sound through the years still without recording their debut album,
and this is a thing that I appreciate very much since many today bands release
it even after one and two years with a still sour sound. Anyway, it’s
incredible to notice that every song of “Crimson Lies” is longer than the
previous one and also that it starts with the fastest “Wish…” with the
half-slow “ALC Till Death”! Are they simple coincidences?
2 – Bad News
3 –
Beerocracy
4 – ALC Till Death
4 – ALC Till Death
Line-up:
Giando
Sestito – vocals/bass
Tommaso Mellace – guitars
Gianmarco Marcello – guitars
Vincenzo Raynal – drums
Tommaso Mellace – guitars
Gianmarco Marcello – guitars
Vincenzo Raynal – drums
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