Under The Influence #65: Filthy Crook on the influences behind “From Filth To Filth”!

When we reviewed “From Filth To Filth” from Filthy Crook, one thing came to mind. Headbanging. Their EP is so groove laden that it will have even the hardest of Metal Heads cracking a smile as they listen to it. So we asked them about the influences behind it and this is what they said…

“After listening to Finnish Death Metal band Filthy Crook, it should come as no surprise that the band is heavily influenced by groove metal giants such as Lamb of God and Pantera. However, we like to think that our members’ diverse music taste in general has turned us on to the sounds of other genres as well. The way that the EP ‘From Filth to Filth’ developed was very organic. Tracks recorded are mostly our earlier compositions of which we formed this collection of songs. Each song has its own thing, but as a whole they still form a somewhat concise collection of music. There’s certainly places where you obviously hear that “Ashes of the Wake” grooving or Death‘s Symbolic heavy mid-tempo riffing but also almost melodeathlike use of guitar leads and overall sound of more modern aggro metal with the rumbling vocals and all. We like to think that you pick up on interesting sounds almost everywhere and we’re constantly listening and searching for them. For example, the ’Concluding Cure’ as a song was heavily inspired by 90’s Eurodance genre with its repeating main riff that carries almost the whole song. On the other hand, ’Innocents of Night’ shares similarities with the likes of Marilyn Manson or System of a Down with softer verse moments switching into more brutal chorus. On top of all this we lyrically tend at times to lean even on the more black metal side of things with all the themes revolving around one’s right of free will and nihilism. Because of this one could argue that our music has too wide of a musical spectrum of styles going on, but we like to think that all this is the mess that forms Filthy Crook. Heavy mid-tempo groove metal riffing with melodic melancholy and hopefully somewhat meaningful lyrical themes. Although we must admit that the continuous exposure to interesting ideas means that it’s easy to get creatively confused. But when that happens, we usually return to the source of our musical inspirations and jam together with intent to “cover” our own demos to match more of our own style.”