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Skeletizer are a metal band. That name probably makes it a foregone conclusion. In the past year or so, the new Orlando group have been building visibility and cred with an increasing frequency of live shows, all of them on very notable bills among the local heavy vanguard. So far, it\u2019s mostly been a street-level rise. But if you haven\u2019t caught on to them yet, you\u2019re about to get up to speed real quick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Feb. 21, their debut collection \u2014 the seven-song mini album Sounds From the Doomshed \u2014 is released. When it drops, you\u2019ll be dropped into the passenger seat of a hard-rock hotrod that rips right off the line like a hurtling fireball. With opening track \u201cSkeletizer,\u201d the quartet of Nikki Sorenson (guitar, lead vocals), Tyler Rosenberg (lead guitar, vocals), Steve Jonker (bass, vocals) and Garrett Ward (drums) slam the pedal with maximum metal in an instrumental blitzkrieg that hits the pavement with wheels ablaze. From there, they don\u2019t let off the gas until the closing note.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Front to back, Sounds From the Doomshed is a skull-peeling thrill ride of hard-charging, high-riding heavy-metal thunder. Dark, hulking riffs certify its doom bona fides up front. But unlike their terminally forlorn trad-doom contemporaries, Skeletizer are looking to raise some goddamn Cain here. Even with some trench-digging breakdowns, this record is a stampede that storms like a thrash-baptized Sabbath. It\u2019s got aggression, velocity and flame-throwing guitars with a cumulative effect that\u2019s the best of all heavy worlds.<\/p>\n
One of the hottest metal debuts in a long time, Sounds From the Doomshed drops everywhere Feb. 21. Besides streaming, it\u2019ll also be available on colored vinyl and cassette on Skeletizer\u2019s Bandcamp. Finally, the free release show is that night in Sanford with Gainesville psych punks Supertwin, Orlando thrashers Ensanguined and local experimental punk act Future Bartenderz (7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, Tuffy\u2019s Music Box). And because they\u2019re party boys, there\u2019ll also be a Skeletizer beer by Sideward Brewing on hand called \u201cBlack Water Void.\u201d<\/p>\n
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