{"id":105225,"date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105225"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:48:38","slug":"album-review-kontusion-insatiable-lust-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-kontusion-insatiable-lust-for-death\/","title":{"rendered":"KONTUSION – Insatiable Lust For Death (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KONTUSION
\nInsatiable Lust For Death<\/strong><\/span>
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\nProfound Lore (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s Mark Bronzino (vocals, guitar and bass) for this debut full-length album that can only be described as formidable.<\/p>\n

Considering the amount of death metal bands festering in the underground, America\u2019s Kontusion are already demanding attention, something which was immediately evident from the release of their 2022 self-titled<\/a> four-song EP.<\/p>\n

Insatiable Lust For Death<\/em> is rather brief at 26 minutes. Mind you, critics said that when Slayer<\/a>\u2019s Reign In Blood<\/em> 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 \u201cfurnace metal\u201d, a burly blasphemous wall of horror and disgust.<\/p>\n

From opener \u2018Endless Horror\u2019 to closer \u2018No Escape\u2019, this is a ravenous, bloodthirsty opus. I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s more cavernous, the vile vocal slurs or the pounding drums. There\u2019s a lot of fast paced stuff present. \u2018Hemorrhage\u2019 is a sickening slab of gore retaliation, the riffs acting as fetid squalls coated in crimson ash. \u2018Incarnate\u2019 is as equally robust and punishing, a brief dash of hammering behind a veil of stinking meat. \u2018Revenge\u2019 and \u2018Melting\u2019 dissolve into similar seething heaps of gushing brutality, as does \u2018Horrid Eye\u2019, a violent tirade of mashed together instrumentation resulting in a smothering blanket of impenetrable smoke and rusty splinters.<\/p>\n

With Insatiable Lust For Death<\/em>, Kontusion have raised the levels of rawness with a debut album that drips with intensity and primitive prowess.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s Mark Bronzino (vocals, guitar and bass) for this debut full-length album […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4764],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-kontusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105232,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105225\/revisions\/105232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}