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"Kult 45" is the eighth full length studio album by the heavy metal band Otep. It was released 27th July 2018 through Napalm Records.
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‘Kult 45’ displays a raging Otep unlike anything you’ve seen from them before, with Shamaya fronting the helm with her animalistic, beast like performance. Never one to beat around the bush, Otep feel like a different breed altogether, showing a complete disregard for the faint hearted as they trample over egg shells and throw all sensitivity to the wind in a vicious, yet refreshing, outcry of disenchantment. Tackling issues ranging from politics to gender equality, and school shootings in “Trigger Warning,” to name but a few, an eerie, sarcastically patriotic start in “Hail To The Thief” briefly introduces the album, before quickly popping an insidious zit that drips and oozes into the unapologetic “Halt Right”. A slide riff dominated by guitarist Aristole, this track gets its hooks in quick and digs them in deep.
‘Kult 45’ sees Otep at their controversial best, assessing and tackling the issues swimming around the political pool party that currently harbours their capital. Musically and vocally, Shamaya brings a fire to it all, immediately displayed in the albums leading single, “To The Gallows”. If feeling overly self righteous and a little cliched at times, ‘Kult 45’ still takes a dark, dangerous, and distinguished look at a frightening point in time, by way of a woman, seething with rage, rearing to look the world in the eye and spit in its face.
Reviewed by Carl O'Rourke for metalwani.com.
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