Band: Skulld
Title: Reinventing Darkness
Genre: Death Metal with Crust Punk influences
Time: 20.57 min
Release Date: 20th February 2020
Vote: 76/100
In
March of 2020, so in full
quarantine times, a video about an
Italian metalhead covering the
Slayer's "
Raining Blood", that he dedicated to an
old woman owning a
famous kiosk in her small town (
Bertinoro), became literally
viral. I remember I had
a lot of fun to watch that very short video! But only in these days I realized that that metalhead effectively plays the guitar in a
death metal band. That band is called
Skulld (after
Skuld, a
Norn in the
Norse mythology that, along with other two Norns, has the power to decide the fate of the people), a quintet coming from two Italian regions,
Lombardy and
Emilia-Romagna, that published so far two releases since their foundation in
2018: a demo and the EP "
Reinventing Darkness", both in
2019. Well, I received this last one from a
friend of mine running the amazing webzine
Blog Thrower (shame that it's on hold since
June 2020!), that produced "Reinventing Darkness" in a
DIY co-production with other 12 metal and punk labels. They are too much to be all listed but some of them were already featured on these pages such as
Italian Extreme Underground,
Hecatombe Records,
Pirate Crew Records (I met his owner during the
Marci su Roma 2 Fest) and
SFA Records. This connection with the punk world isn't a case because every member of the Skulld comes just from
hardcore punk since, for example, the aforementioned video star,
Enrico, plays also in bands like
NoWhiteRag, the drummer
Teo in the
Contrasto while the other guitarplayer,
Rappo, is into even in a great black/death metal act of the calibre of
Hierophant. And don't forget that we are in presence of a band with fantastic values such as
antifascism and
antisexism. All this is
fukken awesome... but is also "fukken awesome" "Reinventing Darkness" in its entirety?
FUCK YEAAAAH!
