Leaving aside for the
moment the song’s title, which alone would place Ghoul within
that elite group of bands who have a song titled after their own band
name, all of which bands rule completely -- leaving that much aside,
we’re still left with the single most charming melange
of grind metal, speed metal, and smart-ass high-school juniors that
you’re likely to find outside of, say, a class full of grind
and/or speed metal loving high-school juniors. The juxtaposition of
standard goregrind images (graves, blood, the eating of corpses) with
standardized English usage (“in boneyards we prefer to dine”
-- prefer? to dine?) let us know that Ghoul are playing
it for laughs, even as the music punches all the right speed-metal
buttons and evokes all the right life’s-so-sweet-when-you’re-listening-to-speed-metal
responses. “A baby, our dinner?” “A bite to eat?”
“A gustable surprise?” You can’t tell me that these
guys, all of whom dress up in blood-smeared ghost costumes on the
back cover, don’t know they’re funny.
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