Death SS – The Entity – Album Review
12th May 2025Listening to The Entity isn’t passive—it’s an act of invocation. Death SS aren’t just musicians—they’re high priests of the perverse, robed in velvet, soaked in blood, and smelling faintly of incense, latex, and sweat. This album doesn’t ask for consent. It slinks out of the speakers and wraps around your throat like a silk noose scented with myrrh and hot sin.
You know what kind of temple you’ve entered from the first incantation—“Ave Adonai”. A hammer-horror hymn to some forgotten god of shadow and flesh, it lures you in with choral grandeur and slow, doomy grind, whispering ancient names into the soft places behind your ears. The candles are lit. The robes are off the shoulders. You’re already sweating, and it’s not from fear.
Then “Justified Sinner” pounces like a dominatrix in spiked heels, all strut and sneer, with Steve Sylvester delivering his sermon through clenched teeth and crooked smiles. The riffs bite. The bass pulses like a vein begging for the needle. It’s punishment music, and baby, you’ve been bad.
But it’s “Possession” that split me wide open. This isn’t a song—it’s a séance in a red-lit room, half-lust and half-exorcism. The rhythm grinds like hips on velvet, and the chorus… oh God, the chorus is pure infernal seduction. I closed my eyes and saw claw marks on alabaster thighs. I opened them and found myself panting like a dog at the altar.
“Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde” is campy sleaze perfection—part gothic burlesque, part psychosexual fairy tale. Sylvester plays both roles like a voyeur watching himself in the mirror, and the guitars swagger with decadent glee. You don’t listen—you watch, breathless, from behind the curtain.
“Two Souls” and “Out To Get Me” are the album’s dance-floor exorcisms: pulsing, necro-glam anthems for vampires in PVC and witches who grind on caskets. These songs don’t walk—they stalk. My hips moved without permission. My pulse did things it shouldn’t.
And then: “Hell Is Revealed.” Yes. It is. This track opens like the floor beneath your bed splitting wide, revealing a discotheque in Hell. It’s sweaty. It’s theatrical. It smells like fear and perfume and scorched leather. You want it. You deserve it.
By “Love Until Death”, I was no longer human. Just a mass of nerve endings and impure thoughts, bathing in candlelight and feedback. This is their slowest, most sensual cut—almost tender, if you like your tenderness laced with arsenic and smeared lipstick.
“The Whitechapel Wolf” turns the erotic into the lycanthropic. It howls and grinds, stalking alleyways soaked in fog and bodily fluids. It’s Jack the Ripper in tight black jeans. It’s everything wrong and so right.
“The Evil Painter” and “Cimiteria” are dark art brought to life. The former, a macabre waltz through madness with brushstrokes of bile and blood; the latter, a hymn for lovers who picnic in graveyards and kiss with dirt under their fingernails. My kind of romance.
And finally, “Evil Never Dies”. Climaxes the album like the final thrust of a ritual gone too far. The drums pound like the last heartbeat. The guitars scream like saints on fire. You finish breathless, spent, and trembling in the ruins of your own restraint.
Death SS has made an album for the damned, the deviant, and the decadently devoted. The Entity is a leather-bound grimoire of horror, lust, and heavy metal exorcism—and I, for one, will be writhing under its spell for many nights to come.
Score 7/10
Tracks
01. Ave Adonai
02. Justified Sinner
03. Possession
04. Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
05. Two Souls
06. Out To Get Me
07. Hell Is Revealed
08. Love Until Death
09. The Whitechapel Wolf
10. The Evil Painter
11. Cimiteria
12. Evil Never Dies
Label – Lucifer Rising
Release – 9th May 2025
