Alucarda have a lot of similarities with Satan’s Satyrs (SS) but I honestly prefer Alucarda! It's like they took what SS did on their demo and said "This is how it's supposed to be done!”
The music on the demo is a good mix of doom elements thrown in to break up the barrage of fuzzed out and vicious punk riffs. While the guitars rip away the drums clatter along as if played by a speedfreak trying to outrun the grim reality of coming down. The bass is all fuzz and hard to pick up clearly, except on "Wicked Sabbath" which is a very nice instrumental track.
Over all this the vocals howl and holler in a raucous manner, you can almost hear the Sid Vicious like sneer behind the microphone. This fuzzy, filthy collection of songs summon vision of all the boobs, fake blood and scuzzy bikers of the 70s underground cinema.
Alucardas debut album has already been released on tape (I have heard it's sold out as well) but the vinyl and CD release is coming in March or April I think. I strongly suggest you order it as soon as you possibly can!
Words: Joachim Eversholt
Alucarda @ Bandcamp