CULT BURIAL - Self Titled
Self Released
Most extreme metal acts who combine genres in order to create their sound usually stop at two. For those acts who go for three styles it's either shit or art. In this English band's case it's the latter. On this band's self titled debut they combine all of the new school qualities of death metal, black metal and doom. The result being something that's epic in a tremendous soundscape style.
Strangely enough by the second time you play this it hits automatically. There are nine songs on here. Each one builds up from the previous one so by the end you're pretty much blown away. The arrangements push another extreme element further whether it's heavy handed riffage, a blackened atmosphere full of falling peril or a doom centrist break to cleansing relief from torture. Also the clean guitar runs are a sharp shock to the senses.
Obviously this band's past has entertained tech death which shows up in parts. But with everything else going on they contain it well. There were times on here where I was just waiting for the jazz bits of ADD guitar mania to ruin it all. Thankfully that did not occur or I'd have pushed this aside. Plus the furnace throat style vocals would not work well in a tech death menagerie.
The one word song titles also make this come over like a concept album for 2020. Songs like "Plague", "Sorrow" and "Chaos" pretty much come to mind when I think of this year. So with all of that said this is a fairly decent debut. As far as personal tastes of extreme go I think it delves beyond my preferred preferences. But for someone into a more modern touch of extreme it'll be perfect. And it's self released which really blows your fuckin mind.
LISTEN AND ORDER HERE:
https://cultburial.bandcamp.com/
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