Cincinnati metal band
Rose Funeral revel in metal at its most brutal and bludgeoning. This is ominous and imperative death metal, right down to the downtuned, chugging guitar riffs and low, incoherent growls (which are often counterpointed by witchey shrieks). "The Well" is an upbeat earthquake of stuttering staccato drum-batteries and power chords, while "Sledge Hammer Face-Lift" is a sort of piece de resistance of darkness and scariness, dropping brutal drum and guitar bombs, with the low gurgling vocals and the feline shrieks casting off against each other in vicious parries. While some death metal ends up cartoonish or caricatured while aiming at morbidity,
Rose Funeral's
Crucify Kill Rot never flinches or shows its hand or humanity: Prepare to have the bejesus scared out of you. This Ohio quintet is deadly serious in intention. ~ Erik Hage