Sign Of Evil are a two-piece from Chile- they brew up an off-key mixture of blacked speed metal, punked death metal, and pitch wavering occult rock. With darts of gothically clunking piano tones, and two-toned vocals that move between deep guttural barks and clear shouty vocals similar to those of Carcass’s Jeff Walker.  Psychodelic Horror is the project's first full-length album- after a cassette demo,  and it takes in eleven tracks.
 

The album is released as either CD or vinyl release- with the cover being a suitable crude affair, with a squiggle purple and black band logo sitting above a green demon with a red tongue stick out- all topped with haphazardly stamped in blood-red occult symbols.
 
The album opens with “Bad Trip” which after a swirling down into hell intro, drops us into glamouring speed metal, which is tipped with discordant cassette tape-like pitch stretch. And we get the first taster of the deep barked, demonic speaking pig-like vocals, which are mixed with the cleaner shouty vocals- before the track drops into clean, yet sourly discordant guitar atmospherics. As we move through the first half of the album we the creepy tolling horror vibe opening of “Serpent Poison” which fairly soon shifts into gunning and punk nasty death metal battering’s- before playing out on bounding haunted house piano keys. There’s the scuzzy spiralling ‘n’ speeding metal nasty-ness of “The War Is Now”, which later features a great pitch-shifting/unwell guitar tone.
 
Moving into the second half we have the short sharp galloping discordant chug ‘n’ buzz of “Die”. We have the smashing ‘n’ hissing drumming tripped occult rock meets speeding death punk-metal of “Slow Death”. With the album out with “Into The Unknown” which shifts between prime evil twanging ‘n’ waver, and buzzing through limbs metallic raw and rip.
 
Theirs is no doubt that Sign Of Evil are trying to do something a little wonkily different and evil unwell with their genre blend. And while at times the tracks feel a little interchangeable here, there is a grim and unwell promise on Psychodelic Horror- and I’ll certainly be interested to hear how their sound develops.