METALLIAN - Culled

Members

Vocals

Thorazine, Section VIII, Exit Strategy, Wake, Malicious Intuition, Disciples Of Power, Bestir, Third Chamber>>SHANE HAWCO>>Third Chamber

Guitar

Acantha, Begrime Exemious, Disciples Of Power, Bestir, The Noumenon, Suic!de Pact, Nerada>>BEN HARBAK>>The Noumenon, Suic!de Pact, Nerada

Bass

Death Toll Rising, The Order Of Chaos, Realm Of Death, The Dead Cold, Villainizer, Bestir>>Drew Copland>>Death Toll Rising, Realm Of Death - Disciples Of Power, Suic!de Pact>>CHRIS CHAPMAN>>Disciples Of Power, Suic!de Pact

Drum

Death Toll Rising, Beneath The Remains, Into Eternity, Wroth, The Dead Cold, Untimely Demise, Bestir, Sadistic Embodiment, Immunize>>Bryan Newbury>>Death Toll Rising, Into Eternity, Wroth, Untimely Demise, Sadistic Embodiment, Immunize - The Autumn People, D Tribe, Broken Nose, Suic!de Pact>>CURTIS BLAIR>>The Autumn People, D Tribe, Broken Nose, Suic!de Pact

History & Biography

The act was founded in 2017 and had an EP called Thin The Herd, Fail To Learn through someone called Hibernation Release in late 2018. Bassist Drew Copland had recorded it. Drummer Bryan Newbury left in 2019. Copland departed in 2021.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions released Canada-based Culled’s Psycles EP on July 26th 2024. The band was described as “Politically Charged Sludge/Doom-Encrusted Grindcore” and featured members from Disciples Of Power, Exit Strategy, Thorazine and Wake who often moved in unison from band to band. The band played a gig with Liminal Shroud and booked another one with Mares Of Thrace and Conan for the summer of 2024.

Reviews

CULLED - PSYCLES - HORROR PAIN GORE DEATH
It is a surprise that a band like this exists in Western Canada generally and Alberta specifically. A pleasing one to be sure; a surprise nonetheless.
The approximately twenty-minute long EP is exciting extremeness that touches on grindcore, power violence and death/doom. There are two longer tracks, two minute-and-a-half tracks and one that sits in the middle. The EP begins with The Trauma Of History, which given the bio’s allusion to the renowned physician Gabor Maté may be referring to an individual’s background. The band is socially conscious and aware and so the spoken intro (which is the way the band’s previous work closed) and outro have a few things to say. The music is clean despite the crushing grind and with a fair bit of tightness and technical ability. Of particular note is the heavy and organic drum sound. No twiggy triggers here as the drummer pounds his kit as if to explicitly show off the warm and heavy sound he has achieved. The sharp guitar sound accentuates the riffs and exudes emotion. The desperate vocals top up the alternately fast and slow moments that mingle and hang out like they belong. Other tracks could be more focused on the breakneck speed only. As mentioned, the message is important to Culled - and kudos to them for that - and here the song’s title says a lot. The title track is faster and more uniform in tempo, but still incredibly well rehearsed and nuanced. That is one steamroller of a bass. The guttural vocals destroy all in its path and the blasting drums mean business again. No lyrics are offered so it remains unclear if the word ‘psycles’ is anything other than the obvious portmanteau. Like its predecessor, Coercion is an assault and too short. It has my favourite riffing of the album in the middle of the powerviolence. Here the band is as heavy as it is technical. Any faster than Halo Of Flies and they need a new mach benchmark to do it justice. Amazingly, it never loses its coherence or tightness. Where did this band come from again? Excision (Lost Cause) reintroduces those slower parts next to the hyper speed barrage and disharmonic riffing. The band always has a few things to say, but allows itself to deviate from the minute-long excursions to spell them out on tracks like this.
This group is culled from a different herd and just crushes it. - Ali “The Metallian”

Interviews

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