Look, A Band: Trogdolyte

With their creepy masks reminiscent of Slipknot, but somewhat darker, and prehistoric name, Missouri-based 'neandercore' (no, I've never heard of it before either) band Trogdolyte have a very intimidating appearance. The 'bigfoot-inspired' five-piece was founded in 2005, and cite Obituary and the famous anthropology professor Grover Krantz amongst their influences.

Death metal's not something I'm anywhere near an expert on, much less subgenres based around famous cryptids, but these guys sound alright. Fast and angry and aggressive, with short bursts of guitar and growling vocals, it's what I expected to hear, but it's still pretty good, and quite therapeutic for after a stressful day of work/revision/hunting down Big Foot, especially their song Mummified Yeti Hand - although the very sudden The Only Good Hippie . . . Is A Dead Hippie is a five second masterpiece, on their first album, Welcome To Boggy Creek. On their second, Don't Go In The Woods, which is available on their bandcamp, the Big Foot theme continues with songs like Murderous Bi-Pedal Hominid Rampage (Where Are My Legs?) which I am going to nominate for Best Song Title Ever at the imaginary music awards in my head, and Sasquatch Ocean.

The Trap Is Set from the Don't Go In The Woods album

It's a shame that death metal is something so new to me, because I don't have much to compare these guys to, unlike with other genres, but as a stand-alone band, what they do sounds pretty cool, and interesting enough that at some point I will check out some more similar music.

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