
Whereas their previous albums evoked the buzzsaw surf riffs of Davie Allen, Dick Dale and The Cramps, with the thunderous groove of Motörhead, their fourth album finds these troglodytes veering hard into classic 80s heavy metal while still maintaining the compelling urgency of Italian gore gods Goblin. It’s heavier, nastier, more driving and… dosed with pure backwoods möld.
In keeping with their B-movie aesthetic, the recording offers in-your-face, loud tones dripping with stench and nastiness. But it’s also some of the best produced vintage sounding underground metal you can get your claws on in these dystopian times.
Ecstasy of Möld kicks off with the band’s signature sampled dialogue from some forgotten low budget sleaze flick, in which a demented character exclaims he will purify the world with blood… “Loud Pipes Take Lives” is a driving 1-minute, 36-seconds of chugging NWOBHM that spills forth into the thrashy “Homicycle Maniacs.” The title track explodes with a blazing fast opening riff, saturated in a heavy wah-wah lead that sounds like Kirk Hammett jamming with Motörhead. But the action shifts as quick as a bullet through a zombie’s brain into surf textures, and finally a dirge-like breakdown as our imaginary hero torches his home village of the damned. “Way of the Road” gives a nice little nod the “The Immigrant Song” along the way as it bops every brat on the head with a baseball bat. Album closer “Get Laid… To Rest” is the album’s most psychedelic outing, with clean tone Floyd-ian arpeggios easing us out after the ultraviolence drenched intro.
The Death Wheelers released their debut album I Tread On Your Grave on RidingEasy Records in 2018. It was followed in 2020 by Divine Filth and 2023 by Chaos and The Art of Motorcycle Madness, also on the label.
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