Splatterthrash is an album released in June 2006 by Ghoul

Ghoul (band)

Ghoul is a thrash metal band from Oakland, California. Though the members' actual identities are meant to be concealed, it is known that some members of Ghoul also play or have played in other bands such as Impaled, Dystopia, Wolves in the Throne Room, Exhumed, Phobia, Asunder and Morbosidad...

. The album features many surf guitar riffs, as well as the expected thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 riffs. The album's lyric sheet

Lyrics

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 is presented in a comic book

Comic book

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-like fashion, with talk boxes narrating

Narrator

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 the story. The album's concept begins with "Bury the Hatchet." This tells of a cult

Cult

The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...

, which Ghoul defeats, attacking Ghoul in an effort to take the crystal skull in their possession. Later, the cult comes back with Killbot

Killbot

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, defeats Ghoul, and takes over Creepsylvania. Creepsylvania becomes a fundamentalist Christian

Fundamentalist Christianity

Christian fundamentalism, also known as Fundamentalist Christianity, or Fundamentalism, arose out of British and American Protestantism in the late 19th century and early 20th century among evangelical Christians...

 state

Theocracy

Theocracy is a form of organization in which the official policy is to be governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided, or simply pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religious sect or religion....

while Ghoul waits to get revenge.

Track listing

1. "Into the Catacombs"
2. "As Your Casket Closes"
3. "Bury the Hatchet"
4. "Merde!"
5. "Cult of the Hunter"
6. "Mutant Multilator"
7. "Psychoplasm"
8. "Splatterthrash"
9. "Gutbucket Blues"
10. "Rise Killbot Rise!!!"
11. "Life of the Living Dead"
12. "Baron Samedi"