Hey gorefiends, here is the horror metal album you’ve been waiting for. Hailing from the desert wasteland of Nevada, Murderock wears their film fandom on their gore-soaked sleeve with songs inspired by Italian horror fare like Dellamorte Dellamore, The Beyond, and The New York Ripper. Any band with a track about Dr. Freudstein of The House by the Cemetery gets serious points with me right out of the gate. Plus, you can see the sexy doc’s face on the cover. And to keep things nice and sleazy, they also reference grindhouse flicks like Thriller: A Cruel Picture and Last House on Dead End Street.
My favorite song is “Cut You To Pieces” about, what else? Pieces! They even incorporate that splatter classic’s very memorable tagline, “You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre”, into the chorus. Just calling them metal does the band a disservice as the influences of punk and fuzzed out rock and roll are all over their sound making Splatter Generation fun, scary, catchy, and heavy as fuck. All of the musicianship is great from everyone involved and the lyrics make a great case for the benefits of necrophilia.