I wouldn't call it anything else but pure coincidence that my next discovery powerfully nominating itself to be in this year's list is again from Philadelphia, PA, like last week's Low Dose. Of course, here we have something that couldn't be more different, as Devil Master are anything but grunge or noise rock. What they are is a unique mix that starts as kind of chaotic, but makes perfect sense as a whole, in an orgasmic way. Satan Spits on Children of Light initially introduces itself as blackish '80s heavy metal, but on the way you get goth guitar leads, old-school deathmetal riffs, punk attitude. I've talked about this record with about 6 or 7 people, and I've got 6 or 7 different impressions when it comes to influences, depending on each one's taste and musical background. For me, it carries a Cradle of Filth atmosphere, a Paradise Lost melodiousness, a Wipers roughness, a Death Breath morbidity; and that's not even the half of it. Devil Master, apart from the theatrical satanic image, bombard the listener with fantastic riffs one after the other, while the omnipresent lead guitar and the abysmal vocals infuse the final result with a trademarked eerieness, finally making them literally incomparable to anything else I've ever heard. And this is no small achievement, given that we're in fucking 2019. I will sound repetitive now, but for me this sounds like it's going to be almost impossible to be topped this year. Then again, we still have three quarters of the year to go...
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