Circle Of Dead Children
Necropolis Records
What's the point of an artist description when
they're called Circle of Dead Children?
The name pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
These five pessimistic Pittsburgh, PA lads
combine pretty much every kind of heavy-duty
sound out there -- most styles that end in
"core" and every one that ends in "Metal" -- to
create a brutal, apocalyptic sound meant to
reflect the current state of the planet, as the
band's members see it -- ugly, defiled, violent,
and base. It's no easy task to make out the
words to their songs, growled for the most part
in the horrifically guttural voice of some
ferocious beast, but they seem to reflect a
profound awareness of and concern for the
state of the environment and the violence of
the modern world.
Singer and songwriter Joe Horvath
provides those frightening lyrics and vocal
sounds while Jason Andrews and
Jon Kubacka (who recently left the
band) build dangerous structures of guitar
violence. The thunderous, bestial rhythm
section is manned by bassist Alf
Kooser and drummer Jonathan
Miciolek, who also manufactures dark,
extremely creepy synthetic ambience that
washes around the edges of CODC's
songs.
After recording several singles -- "Starving the
Vultures" and "Exotic Sense Decay" -- on the
Pittsburgh label Willowtip, Circle of
Dead Children released The Genocide
Machine (2001), their first full album, on
Necropolis/Deathvomit Records. It's a
huge, angry grindcore epic, which contains all
of the featured cuts.
Jesse Ashlock
last updated:
08/10/01
