Bloody Hammers

(Soulseller)

Black lipstick and plastic fangs meet Marshall stacks on the debut full-length from Bloody Hammers, former synth-happy goth rocker Anders Manga. The North Carolinian’s baritone is certainly ripe enough for grave digging and female neck-sucking, but it’s his comfort with fuzzbomb riffola that keeps Bloody Hammers burly and attractive. That and his healthy obsession with cheesy horror’s effect on tattooed ladies in black leather pants. The pounding “Trisect,” “The Last Legion of Sorrow,” and “Black Magic,” which borrows Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave,” should have those trousers around their ankles in no time. ***

This article appears in February 8 • 2013.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.