DOOMED AND DISGUSTING – Satan’s Nightmare

With Satan’s Nightmare Dave Slave – the bass player of the Australian noise combo Sadistik Exekution (1986-2003) – presents the second album of his project DOOMED AND DISGUSTING. The name describes the music quite well, because all of the nine songs (plus intro and outro) are played in a very slow tempo and the numerous strange effects make a quite distorted impression. Talking about the riffs, one can’t deny some Type-O-Negative influences, but Dave’s songs are completely non-romantic and much more morbid. Satan’s Nightmare isn’t just a common metal album; it’s more like a drug-contaminated, atmospheric horror soundtrack. The simple composed songs live from scaring synthesizers and artificially altered croaking and spoken vocals. There are not many differences between the songs, because the recipe is always the same: simple riffs and beats meet horror sounds and extreme vocals.
On the one hand the album is really interesting, but on the other hand there are just too many better outputs in these times, so I don’t think, I would buy such a CD. Apart from that it seems that Dave didn’t take literally things like timing and precision when recording the songs. Sometimes you notice little mistakes on drums and on the guitars.
Maybe some soundtrack fans could like the album and Dave Slave groupies will check it out anyway.