Chilean heavy metal! Much like their seabass, Iron Spell is delectable and full of… heavy metals? I don’t think that’s the case. But Iron Spell peddles in horror heavy metal, and Curse of the Usher is no variant there. Sadly, there is no actual Usher in the song to sing yeah or good good. Maybe he’s in another version of the song. I’m not sure. The band is pretty good at guiding you to big guitar riffs, heavy solos, and fun vocals, maybe that’s their ushering.

The song is a pretty solid shred fest, and they even do a tempo change about halfway through and you get even more variety of shred! There are a lot of close ups of the bassist’s axe. Because it’s shaped like an axe. To let you know he’s playing his axe. This does lead the way into a couple soaring and noodly solos, though they did let the bass shake out a bit in there. It’s nice to hear the slappa bass. The vocals are alright, I think his falsetto is pretty good but it also feels like he’s straddling the line between growly thrash vocals and clean power vocals. If he swung one way or another I imagine the band would have a very different feel, but would probably be pretty rad.

The video cuts between band footage and then like… 1950s set pieces from a spooky movie. Maybe that’s the usher. And his curse is that he has to be in spooky movies. Maybe it’s the portrait of Dorian Grey. Was he an usher? Did he ush? Oooh and a portrait of Edgar Allen Poe. I’ve always wanted to get him in a headlock, that thing is like a pumpkin!