Socially Distance Yourself Permanently With Shitfucker's "Sex With Dead Body"

Do you spend your nights hunched over a computer, hunting eBay for the missing pieces of your serial killer trading card collection? (Eclipse put these out in the 90s. Look it up.)  Do you feel at home in the seedy, debauched world of say, William Lustig’s Maniac (1980)? Then have I got a piece of sonic sleaze for you. I’m talking about Shitfucker’s Sex With Dead Body. What a fucking sentence.

Let’s get some context. Detroit’s Shitfucker, lauded as “one of the metal underground’s best-kept secrets”, formed in 2005 and spent eight years toiling away at demos, EPs, and splits before releasing their debut full-length, the succinctly titled Suck Cocks In Hell, in 2013 on Hell’s Headbangers. They then spent another seven years doing just as they had before, churning out one disgusting EP and split after another, working in the vile company of bands like Midnight and Abigail. Now, in 2020 they’ve pooled their cum drenched, leather-clad resources together to bring us another thirty-six minutes of recorded revulsion.

The album fades in and out of lucidity, bookended by exploitation flavored fever-dream ambient track “Naked Came The Strangler”. Everything in between is an exercise in assaulting the listener with the aural equivalent of watching snuff films in a crowded porno theater. There’s something altogether unsavory about this album and I think that means that good ol’ Demonbitch (bass and vocals), Zyklon-T (guitar), and Python (drums...and flexing, I would assume?) have done their job and done it well.

The instrumentation comes together like a sweaty, locker room haze. It coats the skin and it’s not easy to brush off. Don’t let the noise fool you though. This is a tight band executing their own black-speed cacophony with pure punk fury in its most vicious form. Demonbitch doesn’t so much sing or shout lyrics, as he literally projectile vomits them at you. Wear some old shoes, you’re going to step in something that won’t wash off easily. Imagine Venom, fed on a steady diet of Troma films and recorded in the alley behind the studio. What more could you want? 

The intro and outro tracks suit the rest of the album well and really prepare you for the beating you're about to take. They don’t feel like time wasted at all. Opening track “Stab the Head” pulls a switchblade riff on you from the get-go and just really satisfies with a bouncy, filthy rhythm from Python. There’s some bone-rattling basswork on the title track and the boy’s someone how to turn the phrase “SEX WITH DEAD BODIES” into something almost sing-alongable over flangy, mind-melting guitar. I won’t spoil it all for you. There’s a lot to love in tracks like the Scorpions-on-bath salts romp of “Leather Lady Lover '' and frantic earworm “Skitzoid”. Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and bend over for the long, hard power of Shitfucker. But, please, use protection...and take a shower afterward.

Pick up a copy on vinyl, CD, or cassette at the link below. The album drops its filthy load on 4/20 (because of course, it does).

This piece of shit gets 8/10 on the Madness Meter.

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