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DIABOLIZER
Murderous Revelations

Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo (2025)
Rating: 8/10

As if Nostradamus’ predictions of a forthcoming apocalypse weren’t scary enough, Turkish death metal tribe Diabolizer has opted to provide the soundtrack. There’s no point in running, the fires have already reached your door so you have just two options: jump in the fire and perish or toast some marshmallows and then perish in the flames.

Murderous Revelations is the second full-length album from the Istanbul-based combo, and it’s another firestorm barked from the oesophagus of Hell. These sorts of bands don’t beat around the bush, they set it ablaze and whip you with it. This is impure, demonic and relentless. Just look at some of the song titles if you want some sort of assurance that you’ll burn alive while listening to it; ‘Into The Depths Of Diseased Minds’, ‘Set The World Ablaze (Infernal Dawn)’, ‘Bloodsteam Bonegrinder’ etc.

As ‘Into The Depths Of Diseased Minds’ begins one has to wonder if vocalist Abomination gargles with hot coals born from the inferno of his guts. This is the kind of blackened death racket that has been around since the dawn of time, it’s the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and the fire which scorched London in 1666.

As the cover art successfully depicts, Murderous Revelations is constructed as a wall of heat and integrated within are raging riffs that bludgeon with a burning intensity. As the album develops and unravels, the audience is cast further into the pits of molten lava; ‘Hogtied In Razorwire’ is a blistering flamethrower of pulverising percussion as the vocalisations are delivered as painful rasps, yaps and growls.

The word ferocious doesn’t do this hot-bed of horror justice, but boy have you got to be in the mood for such punishment. Everything is blazing, fiery, scorching, scalding, burning and flaming; a sprawling metropolis of vicious vehemence. Be thankful for any glint of respite, often in the form of a thorny chord such as that which braves the nether regions of ‘Seeds Of The Dethroned’, but for the most part this opus is built of bestial devastation. ‘Into The Jaws Of Cerberus’, ‘Deathmarch Of The Murderous Tyrant’ and ‘Purent Divinity In Black Flames’ are piping hot furnaces choking on their own foaming words. Meanwhile, ‘Bloodsteam Bonegrinder’ is a hellish juggernaut of sound, beefed up by over baked testosterone before combustion occurs.

Satan himself is far too seductive and mysterious to get involved with such hellfire so make sure you purchase sturdy flame resistant clothing before exposing yourself to this furnace.

Neil Arnold

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