Toronto based hardcore/ crossover thrash quartet THE SLIME present a new collection of tracks oozing with gruesome intensity in their forthcoming album, Crab-Walk To Oblivion. The album is set for release on January 24th, 2025. The single "Crab-Walk" is available HERE.
The band comments on "Crab Walk":
"Andy, our singer and lyricist, is a huge fan of The Exorcist movie and novel. The song developed from the initial drum-beat and, when jamming it, he came up with the lyric 'CRAB WALK down the stairs'. Of course, it's not a CRAB WALK that Regan does down the stairs in the movie, it's a spider-walk, and that scene isn't even in the theatrical cut.
'I just had that image in my mind, of the girl creepily spider-walking backwards down the stairs, and the lyrics flowed from there, touching on the same themes as the novel' Andy says 'an innocent paying for the sins of adults, society losing faith in religion, colonialism and exploitation, B movie monsters, it's all in there'.
We had to use an intro clip of George C. Scott in The Exorcist III, a film that gets overlooked, but is amazing in its own right. The main motif on the drums was the basis for this one musically and that's paired with a classic groove in the middle. The whole thing culminates in a frenetic thrash part, speeding up the audience and kickstarting the circle pit."
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