MALTHUSIAN – the summoning bell DLP silver

lim. gatefold double metallic silver vinyl

On their highly anticipated new album, MALTHUSIAN’s fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting Death Metal.

Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band’s opener “Red, Waiting”. What follows is a flurry of murk and madness – blast beats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by MALTHUSIAN’s palpable fury is suffocating; each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre.

The Summoning Bell is a lighting of the pyre – each of the album’s tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming – internal and external, a true end of everything.

Tracks:

1. Isolation
2. Red, Waiting
3. Between Dens and Ruins
4. The Summoning Bell
5. The Onset of the Death of Man
6. Eroded Into Superstition
7. Amongst the Swarms of Vermin
8. In Chaos, Exult

Genres: Death Metal, Black Metal