Last year, Portland maniacs R.I.P. smashed down cemetery gates with their debut album "In The Wind". It was so nice, they had to release it twice - the first time on Totem Cat Records and then again on RidingEasy! Seeing no reason to slow down, the band revved their engines and now they're roaring through the graveyard with their second effort "Street Reaper". This album is simultaneously occult and motorized - it's drowning in all the darkness of early doom, humming with a sense of evil and dread, but then kicks in this dirty vigor that will get you ready to riot. It's fuzzed up, fueled by rock 'n' roll energy, and absolutely electric with songs of death and terror. The sound is practically shaking with a buzzing distortion and the vocals wail madly - it demands to be played loud. The guys in R.I.P. call their style street doom. Musically it really seems to go back to the primitive roots of doom metal and re-invent the wheel from there, injecting some nasty attitude along the way. Listening to this shit feels like cruising a rocky road paved with human bone - and I want to ride it to the end, baby!
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