Originally released in October 2019 this worthy demo has been quickly picked up by the Polish label for a physical release. At the helm of this project is multi-instrumentalist Eugene Kohl from Germany who has many other projects under his belt that I am not familiar with. It is clear the guy has talent and whilst solo projects within death metal usually fall foul of my writing this is not one of them as I often find them derivative.

The original demo had three tracks but the CD version of this release has two extra tunes tagged on the end as the release opens with the title track and immediately the listener is thrust into the world of old school death metal wrath. The gradual fade-in has a doom death aura where the grisly funereal pacing leads nicely into the blasted section that possesses a warring style without venturing into noise territory. Continuing the assault is ‘Disgrace Is His Law’ where that old school ethos really comes to the fore and a fine double kick cascade rains down into the song producing a catchy feel amidst the speed insertions. At times the song has tenets of the Finnish death metal scene of the early 90s, like Abhorrence etc, that ghastly macabre and ghoulish malevolence where gutter trawling malignancy was linked to stench driven doom-death filth.

‘Engulfed In Chaos’ is the first of the added songs and immediately rockets out with blasted enraging chaos, but embedded within the riffing is that sense of catchiness as the blurring snare beat threatens to hurtle the song into an abyss of miasmic oblivion before the release ends with ‘Caves Of Void’. The dirge like opening hook is quickly superseded by the insane speed detonation that owes plenty to early Morbid Angel circa the ‘Altars’ album. The frenzied approach is tempered by deviations in the pacing and a very cool riff change that is super addictive. The rabidity in the speed is infectious as the intensity again threatens to hurl the track into a crevasse before hauling it back with some very cool double bass influx.

A very worthy demo to pick up that contains everything an old death metal fan could want with blood curdling vocals, bone-sawing riffs and a seismic rhythm section.

(8/10 Martin Harris)

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