FULCI: Italian Death Metal Quintet Issues New Visualizer/Single From Impending Fourth LP, Duck Face Killings, Nearing August 9th Release On 20 Buck Spin

by Chiara Meierhofer Muscarà

The infamous Italian director Lucio Fulci created many of horror and exploitation cinema’s most memorable and vivid visions of the supernatural, sadistic and salacious. Zombi 2, The Beyond, City Of The Living Dead, The House By The Cemetery, and more left an indelible impression on the minds of impressionable youths.

The Italian death metal band FULCI was so possessed by their countryman’s work, they named the band after him, with each album being a concept and tribute based on one of his films. For the band’s fourth bloodthirsty full-length, and first for 20 Buck Spin after a steadily growing profile in the death metal underground over the last several years, FULCI presents Duck Face Killings, a homage to one of Lucio’s most depraved and reviled films, The New York Ripper.

Musically, FULCI unleashes a barrage of captivatingly gruesome riffs, gory pummeling, murderous slams, low-pitched guttural vocal patterns, and eerie intros and interludes. The band’s songwriting is consciously fixated on creating the most violent and sharpened music possible to convey the film’s extreme savagery, imagining a soundtrack for the most grisly and cynical slasher flick ever made. There’s a lot of luscious meat on these bones, dripping with hooks and all the colors of Lucio Fulci’s eccentric cinema of cruelty, while the psychotic killer hunts his victims with remorseless perversity and sick gratification, inexplicably quacking in a duck’s voice throughout…

Sure to be one of the death metal highlights of the year, FULCI’s Duck Face Killings features guest vocal appearances by Lord Goat of legendary hip-hop act Non Phixion on “Knife” and Sherwood Webber of infamous death henchmen Skinless on “Human Scalp Collection,” and saxophone on “Il Miele Del Diavolo” by Mario Luce.

The album was recorded at Till Deaf Recording Studios, engineered and mixed by Ando Ferraiulo with assistant engineer Angelo Guierriero, with vocal recording and engineering handled by Stefano Santi at SPVN Studio, and was mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Tomb Mold). The cover artwork was crafted by Wes Benscoter (Autopsy, Sinister, Mortician, Broken Hope, Nile), conceptualized by Dome Diego and Fiore Stravino, the layout handled by Ascionemagro, and photography was handled by Chiara Meierhofer Muscarà.

FULCI’s “Fucked With A Broken Bottle” visualizer is playing at YouTube HERE, and the song is streaming everywhere including Bandcamp HERE.

20 Buck Spin will release Duck Face Killings on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats August 9th. Preorders and merch are now available at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Rotten Apple” is also streaming HERE.

FULCI will perform on the month-long full US Devastation On The Nation Tour this Fall, joining Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Mortiferum, Uada, and Knoll. The tour runs from November 15th through December 14th, and tickets are on sale now HERE. European tour dates are also in the works.

FULCI – Devastation On The Nation Tour 2024 w/ Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Uada, Mortiferum, Knoll:
11/15/2024 Orpheum – Tampa, FL
11/16/2024 Masquerade (Heaven) – Atlanta, GA
11/17/2024 Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN
11/19/2024 Warehouse Live Midtown -Houston, TX
11/20/2024 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX
11/21/2024 House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
11/22/2024 El Rey Theater – Albuquerque, NM
11/23/2024 Nile – Phoenix, AZ
11/24/2024 House Of Blues – San Diego, CA
11/26/2024 Belasco – Los Angeles, CA
11/27/2024 Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
11/29/2024 Bossanova Ballroom – Portland, OR
11/30/2024 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
12/02/2024 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
12/03/2024 The Oriental Theater – Denver, CO
12/04/2024 Admiral – Omaha, NE
12/05/2024 Avondale – Chicago, IL
12/06/2024 Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
12/07/2024 King Of Clubs – Columbus, OH
12/08/2024 Brooklyn Monarch – Brooklyn, NY
12/10/2024 Palladium (Upstairs) – Worcester, MA
12/11/2024 Lovedraft’s – Mechanicsburg, PA
12/12/2024 Hooligans – Jacksonville, NC
12/13/2024 The Senate – Columbia, SC
12/14/2024 Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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