RSS Feed


DESECRATOR OF ICHOR
Apex Nocturnus

Self-released (2024)
Rating: 7/10

Just look at that front cover, it screams “bestial war noise” or something to that effect. Daubed in dark red and black design, Apex Nocturnus is a grim blast of thick, cloying air ridden with toxic particles that act as barbed vapours in the lungs.

This is the debut full-length release from this mysterious Greek act which coughs thick plumes of choking, evil fumes into the leaden sky. There is an ability to combine rank, fetid blackened death metal with hideous, dense walls of war metal; the result being a heated oven of malevolence.

Ten tracks are offered up on the altar, with each being a grinding furnace of fiery doom that boils like a hellish maelstrom of miasmic riffs, feral drums and primordial bellows. Pace (‘Annihilatum’) is combined with a methodical dread (‘Desecrator Of Inchor’) as those ghastly vocals act as foul rushes of abhorrence to combat the dense murk. ‘Black Profane Blood’ boasts a rhythmic pulse of perversity, while the opus has a few eerie interludes too just to give us a brief break from the torrents.

If anything, this release is a touch too short – two more meaty tracks would have worked a treat – but it’s still a nasty platter that dissolves your skin.

Neil Arnold

<< Back to Album & EP Reviews



Related Posts via Categories
Share