TORVUS - The Innate Disease review

 

TORVUS - The Innate Disease

Self Released

They're from Maryland, they play doom and they're damm good. Someone tell all of their peers that they need to retire. I'm joking about that latter part of course especially if you check out this album. I mean there's some really cool things going on with this release that would make a Wino fan or a Bobby fan (aka: PENTAGRAM) sit back and go "cool". Add to that their modern touches and extreme mechanics will grab the rest of you as well.

The first time I listened to this release I thought it was the musical equivalent to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. The tagline to this band is death doom but let's throw that one away. There are times when this band sounds like 70's hard rock (or what hipsters call proto-doom). Then they'll kick into the 80's thrash era only to be surpassed by some touches of black metal, death metal, hardcore, sludge rock and if I missed something then my sincerest apologies. But the bottom line is that you get the feeling you're bouncing around through the decades.

By the way TORVUS are a three piece band from the a-fore mentioned state of Maryland and why aren't then signed yet? This is their second full length after being around since 2014. So yeah musically they're all over the place which to me adds to some excitement. While they do pummel the listener for the early part of this release. It's when "Stone Bearer", the fifth cut, gives you some atmospheric break although just for a few minutes. After an instrumental the latter half of the release just gets heavier. 

I will say that the production on here sounds like a live record as if it was recorded in a club minus the crowd of course. So with that said I wanna see TORVUS perform at a local club. At times there's some savage riffs being laid upon you. The song structures toss in some uncanny moments like on "Pallor Eyes" which is almost a twelve minute epic. The vocals are a mix of harsh screams of agony to full bore death doom howls. The rhythm section is exceptional and the added but subtle use of keyboards gives some cuts that Euro death doom feel. 

I'll repeat what I said earlier. Why isn't TORVUS signed to a decent label? 

LISTEN & BUY HERE:

https://torvus.bandcamp.com/album/the-innate-disease