GENOCIDAL RITES REVIEW

GENOCIDAL RITES - UPHEAVEL OF SUBSERVIENT ABRAHAMIC LAW

White. Black. Red. The tell-all trifecta of when you can comfortably predict what an album will sound like indeed by it cover alone. Is that a bad thing? Time after time it's proven to be a formula for success, hitting a niche within a niche subculture as is like a ton of bricks. After a demo and a smattering of EPs Genocidal Rites finally bombards us with a calamitous full-length review that is as aggressively hostile and violently bloodsoaked as one can imagine.

"Phase One Revocation" sure is a lovely, distorted mess of backmasking and air raid sirens for a brief buildup until the thermonuclear detonation of the title track, as war metal as is gets with howls of lust and total devastation borught forth by battery and stringed artillery. But why would they ever stop there? "Severed Heads of the Spiritual Rat King" is on equal footing as far and fury being totally unhinged as atonal audio bloodshed. Composed with a bit more structure yet not slowing down a bit "IX Gods/IX Graves" has maniacal skinbashing at such and unreleting pace you would swear that the band is trying to travel back in time. I have no idea what "NGAA Incarnate" is supposed to be indicative of however is it an unfodly ear-shredding slab of frentic nastiness done to wat metal perfection. Seemingly every member of the band took turns screaming and shouting to give us "Death Howls from the Abyssal Sepulchres" and they sure did make sure the listener pays a heavy toll for it. Leading in with feedback and overwhelming drumblasts "Necrotic Hellhounds of an Atomic Future" may show a bit more of a thrashy atmosphere than what came before it and has a quick breakdown to spare us from the nonstop onslaught the band effortlessly put up for sale. To end all things "Phase Two Extermination" is most garbled nonsense like the opener was yet it still strangely compelling nightmare fuel with a famale narrator foreshadowing what's to come. And it definitely isn't something pretty.

Sparing absolutely nothing while also leaving nothing to the imagination, we finally can feel the full wrath of Genocidal Rites and a debut that is just beyond words batshit crazy and a portentuous omen of an imminent apocalyptic end to a miserable world. Lose your mind to the sound of maniacal warfare and annihilation embodied in sheer audial terror!

9/10