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EXULT
Primeval Darkness EP

Dark Recollections Productions (2024)
Rating: 7/10

Unholier than Satan’s testicles, Exult is another gruesome Chilean act treading the death doom boards. Primeval Darkness is a wholesome EP in that it serves up everything you’d want from a composite of this ilk; bulbous sludge riffs, dank thumping percussion and grisly vocals.

Opening song ‘Damnation / From The Underworld’ begins with a slog of a riff that sounds like Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi playing Celtic Frost. ‘Death Triumph’ is probably the heaviest example of death doom you’ll hear this year, traipsing into suffocating darkness to the commands of those utterly filthy vocalisations of horror from a guy named Usurper. You get bogged down by each quicksand riff yet mesmerised by the Celtic Frost tone that weaves its dismal magic.

‘Nocturnal Rites’ remains thick but certainly a lot faster in its abysmal galloping. There’s no denying its grim accessibility as the trio give present Darkthrone a run for their money with those creaky, vintage grooves. Before the brief outro ‘Embracing Obscurity’, ‘Realm Of Darkness’ rumbles ominously as sprigs of haste infect the smothering damp trudges.

This is hideously designed and hypnotically dense, so if premature burial in thick mud is your kink then this might float (or sink) your boat
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Neil Arnold

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