(written by Islander)
I’m as infected by laziness as everyone else, but I do have my limits. For example, I almost always steadfastly refuse to quote what PR agents write in promoting the music of bands and labels, because copy/pasting that stuff is just… LAZY… even though lots of other metal sites do that routinely.
But today, I can’t resist quoting from the press materials for Ancient Malignity‘s new album Dehumanization Dawn, even though I’m going to eventually follow it with my own garbled verbiage:
Like a lost relic from the mid-to-late ’90s, Ancient Malignity‘s second album surges and slices with both palpitating precision and gangrenous gnarliness.
Those maniacs out there who hold high the torch of such old gods as Order From Chaos, Imprecation, Sacramentary Abolishment, America’s Crucifier, old Vital Remains, and earliest Kataklysm should find red-eyed solace in the blitzed & bleary decibels on display across Dehumanization Dawn.
Even the production itself sounds era-authentic — dank, dingy, and dungeoned, but no less muscular….
That’s really all you need to consider before diving into the song we’re premiering today from Dehumanization Dawn in advance of its October 1 release by Thai label Inhuman Assault. But you might also consider this concerning what these Nevada-based terrorists have accomplished with the song “Dystopian Subjection“:
Like the band’s name, the music is malign, thanks to a tuning of the strings that makes them sound brutishly corrosive and a groaning resonance of the notes that’s cruel, coupled with gravel-choked gutturals that are damned ugly.
In light of those features, the thudding punch and vivid, jumping pop of the drums creates a contrast, almost gleeful in their energy, though when they accelerate it begins to sound like demented machine-gun fire splattering blood in the form of cymbals. And when that happens, the down-tuned riffing convulses in violence and the vocals sound like maniacal roars and strangled screams.
Malignant ugliness manifests in different ways in the song, and one more way takes shape when the exhilarating drumwork slows down and the filth-encrusted chords begin to heave and lurch. Yet in the midst of that hulking horror the lead guitar suffers a seizure, maniacally writhing and screeching. Good thing the seizure doesn’t last long — we wouldn’t want you foaming at the mouth.
I’m also including a stream of the first advance song released from the album, fittingly named “Abomination Experiment“. It’s also a malicious piece of work, but imperious in the way the tortured strings spear up out of the toxic riffs, and it might be even more ruinously mauling and mangling than the song we’ve just presented.
The drumwork is also jaw-dropping at high speed, and the fills seize attention even when the pace slows (they sound like someone somehow set up the kit inside our rattled skulls), and the soloing is a display of boiling acidic insanity.
PRE-ORDER:
https://inhumanassault.bandcamp.com/album/dehumanization-dawn
ANCIENT MALIGNITY:
https://www.facebook.com/ancientmalignity
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