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Weeping Lesion: Entombed in abscess

24/05/10  ||  Trauma

Okay, I think I get it here: Sweeping Leisurely are big huge fans of Entombed and Abscess and would love nothing more than to be exactly like them. You know, write memorable, awesome, fantastic music (Entombed) and mix it in with a bit of okay, down-tempo, sludgy death/doom (Abscess). It sure seems obvious.

Well, Weeping Vagina fail. Big time. Maybe they are just paying homage to their heroes with the title. That’s cool, that’s encouraged. You gotta produce better music, though. So absolutely uninteresting. If I was looking for an accurate description here, it would be more like saying Beeping Tweezers is not the sum of it’s parts. The vocals are so terribly generic and really lack a whole lot of character other than going borderline belch-donkey. As far as the instrumental aspect goes you could lump each of the instruments into the same category: they are played at way too slow a tempo, for whatever reason, and it sounds way worse than it could because so. I would prefer to not attack them at being incompetent musicians, but there is something lacking when it sounds like the tempo is not what it should be. These guys could be good old down-home Ohio boys (though Ohio sucks), but the music… eh.

You’ve got old-school touches and dabs all over the place here, and if you dig that you may dig these guys for that fact alone. If that’s the only reason, though, I seriously am concerned for your mental state. Old school metal is cool. I actually am liking it more nowadays when I keep hearing the same bands over and over again. Hearing a “new-old-school” band is EXACTLY the same as that. You all sound the same: shitty. Get some personality, get some fucken feeling into the music. Maybe you feel something, but I don’t expect your listeners to feel something as I surely don’t. Instead of xeroxing (a) page(s) from the books of your heroes with a machine that misses 85% of the text, write your own book rather than patch in what you think is supposed to go in place of what’s missing.

Looking back through what I’ve wrote about Creeping Scabies, I didn’t give too much musical comparison other than they apparently love the two bands mentioned in the album title, so here goes. They try to have some breakdown chugg-chugg portions far too often, the guitars squeal *way* too much, and you begin to notice repeating tendencies with the same tried and failed chugg-chugg-dum-dun-dun-dun throughout the songs. It gets old and it gets old fast. 10 tracks is just about too much to take with this music.

Not completely shit, but I don’t surely see a whole lot of people sporting erections for this. And the band name is pretty lame, hence my never actually writing the correct one aside from the article title.

Tweedle dee and tweedle dum
Decided to write a metal album
Tweedle dee went “weedly wee!” on his old guitar
Tweedle dum “bumpity bum” on his drum, harhar
The end result was a bucket of cum.

4,5

  • Information
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: None
  • Website: Weeping Lesion MySpace
  • Band
  • Tim: vocals
  • Twigs: guitar
  • Berries (aka Josiah E. Miller): guitar
  • Tony (not Choy): bass
  • Cory Hall: drums
  • Tracklist
  • 01. Hollow be thy name
  • 02. Bound by flesh
  • 03. Silencing the prophets
  • 04. Dischord
  • 05. Blackened Deceiver
  • 06. Wasted
  • 07. Entombed in abscess
  • 08. Painting with the color of death
  • 09. Darkness brings seduction
  • 10. Dementity
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