***"A few years ago I happened to catch a live set from a new band ZORN and was immediately interested in this new force in the Philly scene. The very first thing that grabbed me was the front man and his demanding stage presence paired with a yell that cut to the bone. Within about a minute the band finished the first song and moved on to the next. Before I knew it they were 3 songs in and less then 5 minutes had passed. The guitars, drums, and bass kept pushing along with fantastic metal punk that was perfectly executed to cut the filler that my short attention span tends to steer me away from Metal. A few months later the bands first demo was released by our imprint tape label Suicide Bong Tapes and sold out the night of release. We immediately knew it was time to get this band on vinyl. This 7-song EP captures the energy and hybrid sound as a perfect entry into the vinyl world for Zorn. Seven songs of spooky metal punk in less then 10 minutes."
7" $7.25
07/20/2018
***Philadelphia’s Zorn returns with a new album for Sorry State, Return to Castle Death. While the two years since Endless Funeral have seen Zorn’s stage show grow increasingly surreal and elaborate (giant Kaiju-style monsters and oversized medieval weaponry are now regular features of their gigs), Return to Castle Death finds the band whittling things down musically, giving us a meaner, leaner, and more riff-focused Zorn than we’ve heard previously. But while these seven tracks feel more straightforward, the hallmarks of Zorn’s sound are still here in force: the blackened punk riffs, virtuosic drumming, touches of neoclassical melody, and vocals that can can move from a Sakevi-influenced gurgle to a banshee death howl in the space of a line. There are also a few new twists, like the warped organ solo at the climax of album-closer “Guest of the Mad Prince.” And make sure to pick up the physical version, because the vinyl features an exclusive bonus track: a cover of Annihilation Time’s modern classic “Bald Headed Woman” put through Zorn’s metal-punk meat grinder.
LP $22.50
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