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Saturday, July 12, 2025
Curse The Son - Suicide By Drummer
Already half-way through the year and we’ve encountered a number of game changing records already. ‘Excruciation’ (2020) by Curse The Son must surely be counted among them. It’s the New Haven doomers’ fourth album since their inception in 2007, chock full of fire and brimstone.
“Suicide by Drummer” was the first single to greet us some months ago, a dawn-to-dusk kind of experience delivering a spirited Ozzyesque opening followed by a stark change of tone and a dead serious close. Whether vibrant or grim, Ron Vanacore’s wicked vocal approach gives each song on Excruciation a distinct identifying mark, along with the devastating low-end his guitar delivers – reinforced by the punishing rhythm section of Brendan Keefe (bass) and Rob Ives (drums).
Vanacore comments: “In this bizarro world we currently find ourselves in, a band’s life’s blood has been taken away. Who could ever have thought that live performances would be such an outlandish concept? Pre-Covid19, Curse the Son had already made the decision to unleash videos for every song on Excruciation! That decision appears even more relevant and necessary now! Fast forward a year and here we all are…isolated, lonely, nervous and frustrated. Fear not friends, music is alive and well.” From: https://doomedandstoned.com/post/620552765519904768/cursetheson
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