Listening to Father Befouled's latest album 'Revulsion Of Seraphic Grace' might not be the best thing to try and fix a headache, but no doubt it will put my mind into overdrive as I describe how their latest effort is quite possibly the best thing they have done so far. Sheer brutality just the way I like it.
Enough force and brutality in this music that it will knock every thick brick off a tall wall, send it crashing into pieces before slowly twisting and moldering deep into the rocky ground. Those riffs are so dark and heavy. So deep and crushing, especially when they slow down. It compresses you. The raw tremolo riffing that comes into play is like a rusty chainsaw cutting abnormally into flesh and spraying the remains all over the underground cave that they were hanging from.
What the pounding drums are doing.. Everything caves in and so brutally, that everything will be squashed in a matter of moments. Totally neck snapping. The ground shakes incredibly and the roof collapses. Everything is destroyed, sometimes in quick succession but most of the time to a slow and grinding halt.
Then the vocals are just as brutal, dark and sick. Drawn out bellows that slowly choke souls as they try to reach out from the rubble that has crushed their bodies. Strains from a demonic beast. A voice you can hear out of the darkness from afar but you are too scared to check it out, fearing you might face death.
In 36 minutes, this album will crush you on the inside, leaving your body left laying in pitch black darkness where you will rot and decay. Everything will disintegrate around you and the last thing you will hear is a chaotic collapse. The only thing left to rise is the dust from the rubble that has entombed you.
Another killer death metal album to cap off a big year for Dark Descent Records. I nearly overlooked this but glad I didn't. Now my brain feels as though it has been twisted, pressed on by a large rock and drowned in a sink full of tar. Brutality at its finest.
Ikil
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