Murderess – Time to Kill: Volume II
MURDERESS — Time to Kill: Volume II
Electric Funeral Records
Release Date: 30/07/2025
Review by Victor Augusto
9/10
Among all the reviews or articles I’ve been writing since I’ve joined this amazing team, I could mention plenty of details about Brasília, the capital of Brazil, where I live. This city not only has a great Rock/Heavy Metal/Hardcore Scene, but also was the place of pioneer women in the nineties. These girls in question were probably the first ones in the world to play in Extreme Metal bands when no one could imagine the possibility of having them playing this kind of music. Bands like Valhalla, Miasthenia and Volkana built a legacy that is still fruitful until today.
Decades after, Brazil keep on showing incredible female bands that have even reached the world-wide mainstream and here is a quite new band that I have a strong feeling can follow this same path. Murderess!!! What an amazing band! They appeared a couple of years ago with a brutal Death with plenty of Black and Doom Metal influences.
The volume II of “Time to Kill” shows a tighter band and what most impressed me is how well they navigate betwee the three main styles I’ve mentioned. In the first seconds, it can sound like a Death Metal band (mostly because of the killer drum of Pedro Fraga) but soon things turn more complex. The guitar lines of Jazz Kaipora are what made me feel that Murderess is on the edge of Black/Doom and Death. When it goes to the Black parts, the guitar notes and arrangements (typical of this style) are not so high and shrill and keep as Heavy as the Death Metal riffs should sound.
One example is the opening track ‘Lady Death’, an aggressive song about killing Nazis, and the darkness of mass murder and The Holocaust. The bass lines of Clarissa Carvalho do often the same, being heavy like in the Death Metal parts, but it never left that “dragged” sensation of Doom Metal behind. The first few very John’s Tardy’s Obituary screams of Claudia Franco brings something a bit obscure to interpret about the band’s concept of the women’s resistance, as the band explains:
“The tracks explore stories of real women, ancestral archetypes and direct criticism of the patriarchal structure. In “Lady Death”, the band pays tribute to Soviet sniper Ljudmila Pavlitchenko, one of the most lethal of World War II. “Baba Yaga”, illustrated on the cover, invokes the mythological figure of the witch, of the powerful, ambiguous and feared woman, against the commercialization of female bodies. The track “No Father” speaks of the contempt for patriarchal religiosity by women, historical abuses and the suppression of female voices in the hegemonic spiritual discourse.”
One year after Volume I, “Time to Kill: Volume II” comes to reinforce how far Murderess can go. With very mature compositions, a strong position about social issues and values and a great recognition from the Brazilian Extreme scene, I’m glad to see one new band honoring all the female bands that started it decades ago.
Time to Kill: Volume II
TRACKLISTING:
01. Lady Death
02. No Father
03. Baba Yaga
04. Murderess II
LINE-UP:
Claudia Franco – Vocals
Jazz Kaipora – Guitars
Clarissa Carvalho – Bass
Pedro Fraga – Drums
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