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Droid Killer - The Terminator vs. The Preacher - Reviewed By thoseonceloyal ! Check it out https://thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/review-droid-killer-the-terminator-vs-the-preacher/

Reviewed by Sandre the Giant

The album art, the name, the concept, the style. We’re ticking all the boxes for me with the new release from North Carolina’s Droid Killer and their debut full length death/doom opus, ‘The Terminator vs The Preacher’, which will be out in October through Black Halo Records. Chronicling the human vs machine war from their base in Antarctica, this is classic sci fi influenced metal at its most fun.

First track, ‘The Collapse’ is a churning, mechanical death march complete with an oddly swaggering solo and closing segment. This isn’t your massive, sleek death/doom monoliths, this is the kind of death metal and doom mix that we’ve been missing and we didn’t even know it. Swedish death metal mixed with stoner doom? Could be. There’s a crunchiness to it that reminds me of Six Feet Under (their rare good stuff), and the groove infesting ‘Technology’s Noose’ is fairly righteous. ‘Terminator’ is a massive, bruising steamroller of a track, and while the doom passages are great (see the almost Cathedral-esque groove of ‘Hunter Killer’ or the sleazy blues of ‘Upgrade’), the moments where the death metal rides higher are my favourite moments. The Asphyx rumble of ‘Fear Fully Made’ is pure death metal thunder, giving me images of metal feet treading on bare human skulls.

‘The Terminator vs The Preacher’ is an odd little record on first listen; you’ve got big swaggering grooves coupled with a nasty death metal roar and guitar tone that seems a little superficial in combination on the surface. But as the record develops, the irresistable hooks get into you, the groove takes a hold and the deathly roar becomes intoxicating. Add in all your little sci fi effects and detours and you’ve got a great, fun record about the inevitable machine-led holocaust of mankind. Not often that happens. thoseonceloyal

Release Date: October 10th, 2023

FFO: Megadeth/Six Feet Under/Serpent Garden

Location: Antarctica

Droid Killer is the definitive Sci-Fi Metal experience based in Antarctica, chronicling the human/machine war apocalypse in real time.

The saga begins with Droid Killer's debut EP, The Hive. This Death Metal cult classic is the beginning of an epic tale that transports you into a future world at the onset of the battle and brings us to the newest installment of the Droid Killer saga, the forthcoming full length album, The Terminator vs. The Preacher. Is life doomed to be enslaved by sentient machines or will a lone stranger from the past rise up and save us all?

Droid Killer is a fresh take on Metal. Death Metal that is fun and stimulates thought is back. Droid Killer brings the gravity and sonic force of Doom Metal into the mix for the ultimate sonic experience.

Droid Killer is the definitive Sci-Fi Metal experience. Their debut full length album The Terminator vs. The Preacher is being released via Black Halo Records (blackhalo.life) with hand painted artwork by acclaimed Sci Fi artist Ryan T. Hancock and mastered by Grammy Award Winning Sound Engineer Alan Douches (Nile, High on Fire, Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Aborted, Pathology). The album is being released on cassette and digital with an accompanying Sci Fi novella "The Terminator vs. The Preacher: Origins" available in the merch package of your choosing or sold separately. Official The Terminator vs. The Preacher album shirts include a high quality digital download of the album are printed by IndieMerch with precision matched colours for an ultra premium presentation of the album's spectacular artwork.

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