Send More Paramedics/Zombie Apocalypse
"Tales Told By Dead Men"
Hellbent Records

Just in time for Halloween comes a hardcore album about Zombies. This shit shreds. Both bands would have been huge in the late 90’s “powerviolence” boom. Get your moshing shoes out….and maybe some fake blood.

Zombie Apocalypse feature ex-members of Shai Hulud and dress up like Zombies. They sound like a thrashier version of Shai Hulud too! All the brain eating mayhem you can handle can be found right here.

A brief interlude titled “Intermission of the Dead” brings us to the Send More Paramedics side of this horrific pairing.

Send More Paramedics are sick. Hailing from the UK, these guys rock like an orgy between Fall Silent, Slayer, and Citizen’s Arrest. They have toured with everyone from the Casualties to Avenged Sevenfold. With song titles like “Zombie vs. Shark” and “Nothing Tastes Like This” I think you know what to expect. Get ready to yell “Feeding Frenzy!!!” like there is no tomorrow.

I bet both of these bands put on a CRAZY live show. Let the brains and limbs fly.

Reviewed by: Adam Circumstance
Reviewed on: September 27, 2005

Zombie Apocalypse is just one of those bands that makes you scratch your head. What was I guess a crazy idea of Shai Hulud guitarist Matt Fox, to have a band that makes songs that do not normally surpass the :45 second mark and make the music as brutal as possible. And apparently now, both Zombie Apocalypse and Send More Paramedics, the band that is also on the split are now at the forefront of a newer offshoot of hardcore/punk and metal simply deemed “Zombiecore.”

Both bands contributed five new songs to this split, which has sent shockwaves throughout the UK and Europe with this release. ZA bring to the forefront, a slightly different approach, than on their full-length debut. On that release, their songs like I said ranged from around :45 seconds to a max of 2 minutes and 25 seconds. This time around, they stretched it out a bit and have a song that clocks in at a whopping 4:48. Included in all the songs are the brutal fury that accompanies Zombie Apocalypse on their songs. The two singer approach to me does not make sense, because honestly they both sound the same. But they are entertaining none the less. My favorite track on the entire disc is the albums opener, “Just meat” as it is :45 of madness. I love it. They’ve done good with this release in anticipation of their new full length out sometime soon. If they’re anything like Shai Hulud, they’ll put out the album sometime before 2012.

Send More Paramedics are apparently at the forefront of Europe’s “Zombiecore” scene and have a massive fallowing. All I got from listening to them is that the singer sounds like he wants to be a Davey Havok impersonator but fails. He fails beyond words actually. The music itself isn’t bad, as it’s more of a thrashier sounding, as the drumming is just insane and all over the place. But I can’t help but say listening to the singer bothers me to no end. I don’t know where they’re going with any of their songs, because it seems as if every song has a different style and they need help with which style to stick to.

I always liked split CD’s because it gave me an opportunity to listen to a band where I would not really think about picking up anything by them in terms of a full length album. But it is pretty clear that this a very one-sided split CD. As one band is far more superior to the other.

The Zombie Apocalypse side is good…Send More Paramedics is not…

Reviewed by: Chris Buehler
Reviewed on: September 27, 2005