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Syzygial Miscreancy

Hellwitch

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Album Review

In the 1980s and 1990s, Florida was not only known for X-rated bass artists like Luther Campbell's 2 Live Crew and slick Latin freestyle/dance-pop acts like Exposé — "the sunshine state" was also known for its abundance of underground death metal, grindcore, and thrash bands. One of Florida's grindcore/death units was Hellwitch, who recorded Syzygial Miscreancy in Tampa, FL, for the small, Los Angeles-based Wild Rags label in 1990. While Hellwitch members Patrick Ranieri (vocals, guitar), Tommy Mouser (bass), and Joe "Witch" Schnessel produced the album themselves, the engineer is Scott Burns — and in death metal/grindcore circles, that is considered a glowing recommendation. Grindcore bands can be one-dimensional; every tune is ultra-fast, and brute force wins out over musicality. But Hellwitch is a cut above many of its fellow Florida-based grindcore/death metal bands. While Syzygial Miscreancy has grindcore's trademarks — ultra-fast tempos, ruthless aggression, and dark, morbid lyrics —Hellwitch opts for a bit of variety. The trio isn't afraid to change tempos a lot — Hellwitch doesn't maintain a 500-miles-per-hour tempo 100 percent of the time — and as a result, Syzygial Miscreancy isn't quite as predictable as many of the grindcore and death metal releases that came out of Florida in the early '90s. Further, you can actually understand some of the lyrics that are coming out of Ranieri's mouth; in many cases, grindcore vocalists are consistently indecipherable. Like other Hellwitch releases, Syzygial Miscreancy didn't even come close to mainstream acceptance. But it was well-received by the trio's small cult following, and is more memorable than other grindcore releases from Florida in 1990.

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Syzgial Miscreancy

I love this album.I remember getting it free on cassette at one of Milwaukee Wi. metalfests and it blew me away back then and it still blows me away today.A must get if you like thrash or death metal.

Biography

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s

Although Hellwitch's cryptically named debut album, Syzygial Miscreancy, was released in 1990, their story begins way back in 1984, when vocalist/guitarist Patrick Ranieri and friend Harry Tyler (drums) recorded the one-song Nosferatu demo in the living room of the former's apartment in Gainesville, FL. Many more demos followed and were circulated in underground tape-trading circles in the intervening years, each of them displaying the gradual development of Hellwitch's increasingly technical thrash/death...
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  • $9.99
  • Genres: Rock, Music
  • Released: 1990

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