Fulci – Duck Face Killings
Release Date: 9th August 2024
Label: 20 Buck Spin
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Genre: Death Metal
FFO: Cannibal Corpse (TOTM, The Bleeding), Dying Fetus, early Madball, Merauder, Mortician, Skinless, 100 Demons, Goblin, Giorgio Moroder, Devourment, Suffocation, Slayer, Crowbar, Bolt Thrower, Immolation, Non Phixion, Franco Micalizzi, Monstrosity.
Review By: Eric Wilt
When you name your band after a movie director, it is no surprise that each album you make is based on one of the director’s films. In this case, the director is the controversial Italian, Lucio Fulci, and the band is the Italian Fulci. Comprised of Dome Diego on guitar, Fiore Stravino on vocals, Ando Ferraiulo on guitar, Klem Diglio on bass, and Edo Nicoloso on drums, Fulci strives to create a soundscape as brutal, depraved, and despondent as the movies the albums are based on. The fourth Fulci album is called Duck Face Killings, and it’s based on the movie The New York Ripper.
While firmly grounded in savage death metal, Duck Face Killings contains a few curveballs that keep the listener on their toes. Songs like the opener Vile Butchery, Fucked with a Broken Bottle, and the title song are exactly what you would expect from a death metal album based on The New York Killings, vicious riffing, barbaric slams, brutal drumming, and debased lyrics. But not every song on the album is what you’d expect. The second track entitled A Blade in the Dark is an electronic song (save for the bass) that sounds like something you would, rightly, expect to hear in a 1980s horror movie. Track 6 is Knife, a rapcore song featuring the guest vocals of Lord Goat of Non Phixion. And the final track, Il Miele Del Diavolo blends electronics and heavy guitars with a saxophone solo that puts the listener in the mind of New York in the 80s.
Clocking in at only 33 minutes, Duck Face Killings contains enough riffs to fill a record twice as long, and with the addition of songs like A Blade in the Dark, Knife, and Il Miele Del Diavolo that contribute to the atmosphere of the album, Duck Face Killings really does feel like a retelling of a 1980s horror flick.
(4 / 5)
