{"id":20464,"date":"2014-04-21T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=20464"},"modified":"2014-07-21T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:41:29","slug":"album-review-eskhaton-worship-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-eskhaton-worship-death\/","title":{"rendered":"ESKHATON – Worship Death (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESKHATON
Worship Death<\/strong><\/span>
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\nChaos (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two of my favourite black \/ death metal acts over the last year have been Britain\u2019s Grave Miasma and Norway\u2019s Obliteration, both being responsible for some truly dungeon-esque metal. Now Australia\u2019s Eskhaton have unexpectedly entered the fray with their chaotic brand of furious, unholy noise. <\/p>\n

These guys formed back in 2010 and were quickly off the blocks with 2011 debut album Nihilgoety<\/em>, which boasted all the intrigue of a disharmonious storm. Wild solos, crushing, pummelling drums and cold, cavernous riffs were the order of the day for that composition, which also featured more gloriously ghoulish and phlegm-ridden vocals.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m rather happy to report that it\u2019s more of the same from this barbaric quartet who are demanding you listen \u2013 otherwise, you will perish within the eternal depths of whatever dungeon they choose to construct. <\/p>\n

Worship Death<\/em> is a brutal, aggressive and arrogant platter that showcases the demonic gargles of vocalist Invokocide, who perches upon the rocky outcrop like Lucifer peering at his disciples. His ragged platform, so icy to the touch, is constructed of a battering ram of clammy, stifling guitars which \u2013 for all of their evil speed \u2013 just annihilate in their frenzy. It seems that the members shift between instruments, although since 2013 Abyssnil has been responsible for the violent thrashes of the bass strings, while the adorably named Hammerkill lives up to his by whipping his drums as if they were the flesh of those who had betrayed him. <\/p>\n

Misty, murky, malevolent and putrid \u2013 Worship Death<\/em> can easily be summed up in those terms, because it\u2019s such a violent feast that reverberates around the cold, stone walls as if some behemoth of Beelzebub has awoken from its ghastly slumber. <\/p>\n

Of the 11 tracks served to us, only the brief intro (\u2018Nekrochant\u2019), the middle section of \u2018Esotrans\u2019 and \u2018Deifire\u2019 and the closing \u2018Outro\u2019 allow us to escape from the cruel waves of pitch darkness these guys bombard us with. The immediate suffocating assaults of \u2018Obdeathed\u2019 and \u2018Abhorrent Primaeval Devilry\u2019 are such foul-smelling leviathans that ears will be left bruised, bloody and running with foetid condensation once they have gobbed their last wad of phlegm. <\/p>\n

The press release mentions a hybrid of Portal and Incantation and to some extent I can hear this, but Eskhaton have a far more lethal dose of venom as they clatter through the apocalyptic horror of the stinking title track which, for a nice change, doesn\u2019t begin with the usual barrage of blasphemous noise but instead chooses a measured approach before sinking back into the depraved speed. <\/p>\n

It could be argued that there is a lack of variety amongst these primitive manifestations \u2013 after all, \u2018Skeleton Shrine\u2019 could easily melt into \u2018Antilife Antichrist\u2019 and no-one would probably bat an eyelid \u2013 although I\u2019m sure the unhinged Hammerkill would soon see that you are dispensed to the hole beneath his gore-soaked kit for failing to distinguish one hateful chunk from another. Even so, Worship Death<\/em> is, to put it simply, a relentless album that has no time whatsoever put by for subtlety, or melody for that matter. This is dark metal from the foulest crypts of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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

ESKHATONWorship Death Chaos (2014)Rating: 7.5\/10 Two of my favourite black \/ death metal acts over the last year have been Britain\u2019s Grave Miasma and Norway\u2019s Obliteration, both being responsible for some truly dungeon-esque metal. Now Australia\u2019s Eskhaton have unexpectedly entered the fray with their chaotic brand of furious, unholy noise. These guys formed back in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-eskhaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464","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=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20467,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}