Jucifer
Throned in Blood
Relapse Records

Throned in Blood, Jucifer’s seventh album, sees married, nomadic duo Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood at what is perhaps their most savage, which is really something when you consider the sheer amount of LOUD these two volume dealer’s put into everything they do. I mean, this one is utterly UNHOLY, dude, as close as they’ve come to making a black metal album, really, and makes ’08′s L’Autrichienne sound like an afternoon tea party. Christ, any one of their six albums prior to this one had a handful of graceful, and I dare say pretty, moments, but this one is just ruthless and barbaric (don’t let the album’s last track, “Armageddon,” fool you, it may be soft but it’s still barbaric). If you ever thought Jucifer had a tendency to sound like the Melvins, just listen to a song like “Hiroshima” (or any of ‘em, hell) because now they sound like the Melvins on a more nuclear scale. If I didn’t already know that Amber is capable of softening things up every now and then I would assume she received a throat transplant courtesy of the Devil himself and is now abusing that vocal prowess like it owes her six months rent…and its first born. Jucifer is a multiple ear plug band on the best of days, but with Throned in Blood you’re going to want to encase your head in cement and pray that the boiling, rotten, and AWESOME energy pouring out of this one doesn’t penetrate your cold, grey fortress of solitude and disintegrate your fucking skull.

Listen to “Contempt” from Throned in Blood!