WEDNESDAY 13 HAS seemingly never been short of inspiration, but by his own admission, even this horrorobsessed frontman had a hard time summoning the creative spirits during the pandemic. So, he turned to his happy place – his home studio housing a mancave of horror memorabilia – and the result is Horrifier. As implied with songs like Exhume And Devour, the time spent there did nothing but perk up his taste for blood. Most macabre of all, and ranking as one of the band’s heaviest drops to date, is Insides Out, which opens with a bowel-trembling breakdown almost as terrifying as the idea of your innards on show. Wednesday’s snarling pleas of ‘Scream for me, bleed for me’ offer a sludgier side to the normally sleazy mob making them sound more like Crowbar than frequenters of the Sunset Strip.
