Even though Cult of Scarecrow is a relatively new band with just one EP prior to their debut proper, most of the guys behind this moniker are all veterans from the Belgian metal scene. Starting out as Dead Serious before they turned into Die Sinner Die. This was all way back in the early nineties. Fast forward to 2017 when the troupe got back together and re-baptized themselves as Cult of Scarecrow on the base of the second song they had newly written together again . A self-titled EP with four songs was the result. Now three years and a world pandemic later, they have construed their debut full length under this new banner.
Stylistically, they’re not so easy to pigeonhole. There’s a wee bit of thrash in there still from their yesteryears, but mainly this is simply nineties styled heavy metal with a lot of groove, grunge and a touch of old school doom metal. Not that any of these tales are actually really slow, it’s more the rumbling Black Sabbath-like bass that will remind you of the doom of yore. That is one of the main differences with the EP which adhered much more to doom’s typical slow-mo tempo.
This difference will in part come from the new drummer Nico Regelbrugge who likes to kick up more of a racket than his more stoner oriented predecessor. Maybe not doomy per se either, but the vocals for sure ingrain the songs with a sense of sinister brooding as their lead singer Filip De Wilde sounds like a Flemish version of Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley, which brings in this grunge aspect from way back in the nineties. From: https://www.grimmgent.com/albumreviews/cult-of-scarecrow-tales-of-the-sacrosanct-man/
