The Ancient Ritual of Death

Beast Of Revelation is a brand new project featuring members from a plethora of well-know bands. They dropped their debut record on Iron Bonehead Productions, so it’s time for me to get stuck into some punishing death-doom from a trio of killer musicians.

Droning, crusty guitars and gruesome growls come in with a chiming bell, setting a morbid, drudging and intense sound as drums slowly pummel into the mix. Eerily creeping along with macabre, doomy riffs, Beast Of Revelation are playing the slow game, building to something devastating with monstrously heavy songwriting that really gets under your skin. The guttural vocals are perfectly suited to the monotonously gloomy instrumentals, really hitting the low frequencies with force. This is some ludicrously heavy material, that can be said from pretty early on.

The record continues to march through charnel layers of dreary and bleak death metal brilliance with a storming blend of crushing instrumentation and killer vocal work that warps into some more discordant, unsettling grooves and mysterious territories. Obliterating mid-tempo crawls soon kick in some more stomping destruction that builds slowly but incredibly well into some ferociously intense and marvellous soundscapes of pure death-doom ecstasy. There is a primitive charm to this material which somehow manages to stay away from obnoxious and unnecessary progressions while definitely not feeling dull or lacking.

Fantastically creepy, haunting and magnificently well-written, this hypnotically minimalistic style is utilised in a manner that sounds utterly huge, with a monolithic production to deliver the vacuous bellows from purely decimating instrumental and vocal debauchery that drags out a gruellingly dark cacophony of blissfully brutal material. Slowly ebbing away at you with their morbidly crawling hooks and anguish inducing sonic tribulations, this is some blasphemously intense music on their debut record which is a superb start to hopefully more mortuary-shaking material.

A grave-rupturing slab of totally wonderful death-doom that harkens back to the Finnish death metal of the 90s with epic doom metal soaring into the structures of the riffs. With apparent influences conjured from Triptykon to Black Sabbath to Funebre, there is definitely a wide range of diverse sounds that work together astonishingly well on this record. Cohesive in execution, the amalgamation of so many sounds is delivered with gorgeously tight musical prowess that hits hard and draws out into a stunningly ambient piece of memorably glorious work that pounds, soars and growls with delightfully eerie death metal excellence.

Truly a mesmerising debut that will certainly win the stone hearts of death-doom lovers who prefer the classic approach to the sound without any obnoxious or unneeded diversions from the morbid hypnosis incurred from slow, drudging and monstrously heavy music.

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