#174
May 27 1985
Bathory
The Return of the Darkness and Evil
Genre: Black Metal
2 out of 5
Highlights:
Reap of Evil
The opening sounds like a halloween haunted house walk through in some suburban outskirt. It’s a good house. At first. And then you walk through and it’s so fucking gory. It isn’t just jump scares, it’s gruesome. The severed heads look real. There’s a guy in a gimp suit. A real guy. While you are terrified of him you also have to wonder…is that HIS gimp suit?
You walk through the living room and it’s the only room without cobwebs and paraphernalia. In fact, it’s just some middle aged guy watching tv, drinking a beer. He’s watching…Small Wonder reruns and laughing and you can’t tell if he’s actually part of the haunted house or not. Maybe he just decided that this was HIS room and fuck all y’all. And all the while, the rest of this Bathory record is played on distant speakers.
When you exit, you’re offered candy and you take it, shake your head and move on to the next house.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-return-of-the-darkness-and-evil/1438704969
