photo courtesy of Frederick Foxtrott"Apocalyptic folk metal" act O'Death comes straight outta Brooklyn with gothic lyrics embedded in jammed-out headbanging music played on traditional folk instruments. The apocalyptic themes were more difficult to detect at b-sides this past week, however, as they came even more deeply hidden in a muddy bass- and violin- heavy mix than their indie aesthetic requires. The mix, while poor, was admittedly propulsive, emphasizing the driving bass and spasmodic fiddle more than enough to get me moving several times during the show. If Mumford & Sons did a record consisting entirely of their occasionally spastic breakdowns produced by Trent Reznor circa "Head Like A Hole", that would sound approximately like O'Death. To give them a better listen than I got to, stream their new album Outside at Paste [here].
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