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KONTUSION
Insatiable Lust For Death

Profound Lore (2025)
Rating: 8/10

As soon as I discovered that Chris Moore of Repulsion fame was involved in this I just had to jump on it. Moore, who brings drums and synths, has teamed up with Coffin Dust’s Mark Bronzino (vocals, guitar and bass) for this debut full-length album that can only be described as formidable.

Considering the amount of death metal bands festering in the underground, America’s Kontusion are already demanding attention, something which was immediately evident from the release of their 2022 self-titled four-song EP.

Insatiable Lust For Death is rather brief at 26 minutes. Mind you, critics said that when Slayer’s Reign In Blood was released a lifetime ago. Even so, this album feels longer simply due to its dense construction. This is the musical equivalent of having your face blasted by a flamethrower; a scorching thick barrage of congealed riffs and demon blasts. I tend to call this sort of noise “furnace metal”, a burly blasphemous wall of horror and disgust.

From opener ‘Endless Horror’ to closer ‘No Escape’, this is a ravenous, bloodthirsty opus. I’m not sure what’s more cavernous, the vile vocal slurs or the pounding drums. There’s a lot of fast paced stuff present. ‘Hemorrhage’ is a sickening slab of gore retaliation, the riffs acting as fetid squalls coated in crimson ash. ‘Incarnate’ is as equally robust and punishing, a brief dash of hammering behind a veil of stinking meat. ‘Revenge’ and ‘Melting’ dissolve into similar seething heaps of gushing brutality, as does ‘Horrid Eye’, a violent tirade of mashed together instrumentation resulting in a smothering blanket of impenetrable smoke and rusty splinters.

With Insatiable Lust For Death, Kontusion have raised the levels of rawness with a debut album that drips with intensity and primitive prowess.

Neil Arnold

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