The decision to pigeon-hole themselves into horror romanticism allows OHHMS to branch out sonically more than ever before, from the heavy rock ’n’ roll of The Mephisto Waltz to the mid-00s emo-esque ending of Swamp Thing, as well as expanding on their bread and butter offering of proggy sludge and post-metal. For example, Eaten Alive is based on the 1976 slasher horror of the same name about a psychotic hotel proprietor who feeds unhappy guests to a large crocodile that lives in the swamp beside the property. Vocalist Paul Waller ‘s knowledge of the genre runs terrifyingly deep – he hosts his own podcast about horror movies, after all – so he’s taken some hidden gems and deep B-movie cuts to inspire the songs on Rot. Eight songs (and a bang-on-theme intro) inspired by some of the horror genre’s most gruesome and ghoulish entries, all translated into OHHMS ’ potent sludge racket.īut if you’re coming into this expecting an ode to Jason Voorhees or a soliloquy for Jigsaw, then you’re way off the mark. Whereas their previous work has focused on weighty topics like animal rights or global warming, Rot centres instead on the band members’ main obsession: horror movies. OHHMS are sick of it and that’s why on their sixth album Rot, they’re injecting their own sense of fun back into what they do. ![]() Then the gatekeepers, elitists and trolls came around and suddenly your favourite songs are subjected to painstaking scrutiny and judgement. Those times as a teenager when you and your mates giddily “started a band” but never went beyond that first tuneless meeting, or the songs that are tied to powerful waves of nostalgia and days you’ll never forget.
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