Silvertonguedevil
Pax Satanica
Album review by Allyson Kingsley music journalist with Metal Coffee/Metal Moose
From the time I heard the first rumblings of heavy metal, or as my mother lovingly referred to it-the devil's music, I have been hooked. And I gather many of you feel the same. Apparently there was a study conducted whereby heavy metal and Rock music was linked to what they call the Devil's tritone. I'm not very well versed in music theory and by reading what it is, I am lost by paragraph two but anyhow this study relates that certain people (metalheads!) are simply wired to like the Devil's music. So here I present a band from Dallas, Texas named Silvertonguedevil and they outright describe their work as the Devil's music. Their current album is Pax Satanica and it is a testimony to what they describe.
The band members are Craig Meinhart (vocals), Aleks Speed (guitar), John Tapia (bass, guitar) and David Cruz (drums). They have three previous albums on their own label All Devils Music: Secret Demons (2009), Pornographic Scripture (2012) and Orthodox Heresy (2015). They also have a side project Acoustic Devil in conjunction with what they do in Silvertonguedevil and they label the sound as acoustic metal. Quoted from their biography they "draw inspiration from the classical world, de Sade, Lovecraft, Poe, Baudelaire, Barker, Ketchum and historical events from around the world". Let's have a listen.
We start with "The Great Butcher" and it's every bit as heavy as I love and the lyrics are beautifully gore-infested. Check out the following : "Masticate-defecate-suffocate-desecrate
Stripped of flesh and cleaned of fat
Reduced to bone and smashed to ash
Packaged and sold-edible bike
Eaten raw and tasting vile"
Not something you want to play at your family holiday gathering unless of course they are as twisted as yourself. We move to another tune that is equally monstrous in it sonority called "Full Spectrum Dominance" and from the lyrics I gather it's theme as how governments are abusing their power at our expense.
"Blood Drenched Sex Magick" definitely hints at BDSM themes. "Peace Through Adversity" makes me think of how people are duped into thinking that the media and the politicians are keeping the peace when they only serve to divide us and conquer us. If only we all would wake up to this reality.
And now the album switches over to the Acoustic Devil part which I instantly fell in love with. If you love the dark side of Johnny Cash and if your a fan of Adam "Nergal" Darski's (of Behemoth) side project Me and That Man, you are in for a diabolical acoustic treat here. This half of the album has already formed a vice-like grip which only strengthens further as “Spawn of Sub-Human Copulation" comes on to spellbind me. With its underlying demoniac gritty vocals and a hypnotic acoustic rhythm this would suit well to be played at a black mass. My favorite from the acoustic half is "Of Human Gore Imbued". Its very darkness draws me right in and satisfies the morbid in me. What a great masterpiece of an album.
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