SKULL67

FOUL STENCH, The Bone (2007, Ukraugh Productions)

The skull:
A super close-up of a shadowy skull, this BDS begs the question: which bone is the bone? The human skull at adulthood is composed of (roughly) 22 separate bones, although this fellow here, lacking a jaw as he does, would be made up of fewer. So which one is it? The sphenoid? The ethmoid? One of the superior maxillaries? I suppose it could even be the vomer, although I should doubt that even Foul Stench are so gauche. One thing is certain: if this album had been called The Tooth we wouldn’t have nearly so much to speculate about.

The music:
After recording three demos in the late 90s, Foul Stench broke up, but nearly ten dormant years later, they regrouped at last. Demand for the Stench was simply too great to ignore! From every corner of the internet, devoted fans begged, pleaded, for Foul Stench to rise again, and the Stench, beholden as they are to the devotion of their public, put past differences aside and came together anew to deliver unto the world the moderately competent death metal it so sorely lacked. The Bone is the first comeback release from these Dayton stalwarts, featuring such now-classic Stench cuts as “Pack a Bowl,” “Skull Fukd,” and “Singing About Pussy”. Honestly, The Bone is not nearly as bad as I was afraid it would be: imagine a mix of early Obituary and Gorefest with a liberal pinch of D-beat, and you’ve more or less got it. The sound is good and the performances are all around above average for this sort of thing. No, it’s not winning any prizes for originality, but when you’re talking about weed-obsessed midwestern death metal, expectations must be calibrated appropriately.
— Friar Johnsen

3 thoughts on “SKULL67

  1. Only because you guys are clearly excellent writers who know how to turn a sentence out:

    “The human skull at adulthood is comprised of (roughly) 22 separate bones”

    should be “The human skull at adulthood is composed of (roughly) 22 separate bones”

    or if you want to use “comprise”

    The human skull at adulthood comprises (roughly) 22 separate bones”

    In your sentence, the skull makes up the 22 bones, when it should be the other way around.

    Thanks for the site! Off to more fun reading!

  2. You can’t even see the vomer or the ethnoid bones. Or, are you suggesting, because you can’t see that they’re the important ones? Hmm. That shit is deep!

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