Artist: Sexlucifer
Country: Finland
Label: Kymijoen Levyt
Formats: Demo Tape
Year: 2025
Ah, yes. You can leave it up to the Finnish to come up with some utterly deranged shit. Take this new band called Sexlucifer for instance, the combination of the band name, cover art and demo title… you gotta love that. Admittedly, it could have been Japanese or South American too, but I am not in the least surprised it is Finnish. And, musically, you’re just getting what you’re seeing. No surprises here!
After a rather quirky electronic intro you are immersed in some totally regressive Black/Speed/Thrash Metal of the ugliest kind. A thin guitar sound and simple-as-fck riffs are the main attraction here, but they go hand in hand with drum rhythms of the same fashion. You can add a rough rehearsal-like production and you basically have a perfect picture of the aesthetics that Sexlucifer is built upon. A musical comparison is best made with the earliest works of Urn (also from Finland) and Sabbat. The ramshackle playing and production actually add much to the overall experience and give the feeling as if this is a recording of a boozed-up rehearsal session from Venom in 1980. That idea is further reinforced by the Isengard-like drunken bellowing towards the end of this (rather short) demo. Naïve or infantile? Perhaps. Authentic? Yes. Awesome? Fuck yeah!
Sometimes there’s not many words needed, not necessarily because of the simplistic nature of the music, but just because the band itself does not beat around the bush. Everything screams that if you are into the drunken kind of Black/Thrash Metal that was briefly en vogue around the 2000’s, remember the Headbangers Against Disco 7” singles?, you should give this a shot. Check it out through the label’s Bandcamp age or order one of the 20 demo tapes.
