Bottlekopf — The Jokes Are Over Review

Immediately, as the listener presses that play button, the listener is welcomed to the opening piece, Intro, which welcomes the listener’s ears with epic drums and Norse chanting/ritualistic atmosphere – building up for battle.

Following suit with the second track, Justice is the first song following the intro track. The remaining eleven pieces burst out of the PA system like a bomb going off – giving the listener’s ears this massive sound and music that is unpolished, dirty, and noisy.
As one continues with their journey of the third track, Seven And A Half, and the ten remaining pieces – where the music and songwriting are well composed, while the sound and production are straightforward but also raw and unpolished.

At the same time, The Jokes Are Over is delivered and provided by tight devilmanship that consists of giving the listener this raw-unpolished, dirty, and noisy atmosphere of powerful, adrenaline, fuel-pumping/driven, headbanging metal bomb anthem. That utilizes roar-guitar artistry of bulk and abrasiveness of brutal and groovy riffs, — but also complex at the same time providing the listener with additional clean (flashy at times) virtuoso riffs/fret-board (shredding) solos where all various compositions are convenient to place at the right moment of each song.

The rest of Bottlekopf‘s instrumentation work is just as outstanding as the guitar work, one will hear the bass riffs presence at the back with its heavy-crushing atmosphere. Marek “Chlosta” Szefer‘s vocal work, which consists of gruntled death growls, doesn’t copy anyone’s signature style, but captures and creates a style of his own.

Rhythmically and brutish gallops of the drums – again, all are convenient to place at the right moment – at times, the music seems to drift off the left path of their death metal sound. This is to give the listener moments of unique/experimental moments within their music, such as; a raw punkish vibe, heavy-thrashy, gloom and doom.

Simultaneously, when one reaches the ninth track, Guest, there’s a moment in the song of hearing this Pantera‘s Walk atmosphere. Track eleven (one of the most extended tracks), where one will encounter an avant-garde/ experimental guitar and drum instrumental work for the first five minutes before the vocals are unleashed to finish the rest of the piece. The twelfth piece, Dead Blues welcomes the listener to a Motörhead sound and some groovy Memphis blues embedded in the music—closing the album, with the conclusion (short) track.

The Jokes Are Over, an entertaining and different/new breed of death metal, with characteristics and a style of its own. Not to be missed or any track to be skipped -to be played loud and at a volume of a maximum of eleven!

The album comes to an end with the last song, Supplementary, which provides the listener with a gloom/doom instrumentation atmosphere closure. We want to give a shoutout to Brutal Cave Prod for letting us review Bottlekopf and their album, The Jokes Are Over. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.