Album Review: O Zorn! – Your Killer

If you’re not familiar with rabbit speech, you might assume that name was a tribute to avant-garde sax god John Zorn. As it is, though, it’s an exclamation of calamity in Watership Down’s Lapine language, which is so beautifully weird that it just feels right. Your Killer is a strange, riffy mix of beauty and horror, with trippy swirls that could beguile any bunny before those killer riffs rain down like death from the skies.

Sludge-drenched post-metal is not the rarest of commodities in the dankest parts of the underground, but O Zorn! manage to sound quite unlike anyone else. Bill Kielty’s rasping bark adds a hardcore edge to even the more ambient moments, and those layered passages are surrounded by harder metallic grooves.

They’re also adept at shaping these elements into actual hook-filled songs that sound compact even when clocking in at over seven minutes, like the nightmarish France On Foot. It all makes for a killer release all round.

Verdict: 4/5