Pseudogod - Deathwomb Catechesis

Here is another one of those death metal albums that comes across as a pure moment of total noise terror. An approach that I am really taking a big interest in. Russia's Pseudogod have pretty much done what Embrace Of Thorns did with their latest effort, and that is provide 40 odd minutes of complete dark chaos that will send fear right through you.

This is like a massive wall of fire tearing through a dark cave, smoking out demonic monsters who alight from the cave screaming in flames and brighten up the night sky as they explode out over the ash ridden burning fields. These guitars sound as if they are on fire, burning profusely. With the blistering drumming that sounds like the rocky walls rumbling immensely and caving in as the flames tear through the place, you just know that annihilation is here.

With some faint hints of black metal hazing through the album that sits along death, there is a bit of extra fuel added to flame filled sound and atmosphere. There is the rare moment that you feel as though you are listening to an old school black metal album from years back that just didn't quite make it because this one didn't have the cold vibe that the others presented.

There is no real stand out song but to the bands credit, they vary it up a bit and tend to hold back at some moments in their songs where they dirge more or trudge back and forth and let the faint moments of solos and lead work have their place. It is like the fireball begins to slowly puff out even bigger smokey flames which split up and violently flicker out into all directions. It is what will lead the field above to steam and melt away. Just send everything into ablaze.

The vocals are so deep and dark. Like a beast standing on the highest cliff that is above this burning field and sucking in all the smoke that is rising from this blaze and forcing it all out in total fury as he watches the land melt away right before his own eyes. This is where the sense of brutality comes into this album. So destructive.

Pseudogod has produced another one of those albums that if hell existed, this would have come straight from the depths of it.. Only hell wouldn't even be able to contain this raging fire. Next to this chaotic piece of work, hell is a cold place.

Ikil