{"id":22566,"date":"2014-12-09T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22566"},"modified":"2014-12-09T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:35:35","slug":"album-review-decimation-reign-of-ungodly-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-decimation-reign-of-ungodly-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"DECIMATION – Reign Of Ungodly Creation (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DECIMATION
Reign Of Ungodly Creation<\/strong><\/span>
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\nComatose Music (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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For a band so technical in its brutality, I\u2019m surprised that Turkey\u2019s Decimation didn\u2019t opt for a more intriguing band moniker. This trio has been around since 1999 and Reign Of Ungodly Creation<\/em> is their third full-length outing, coming some four years after 2010\u2019s Anthems Of An Empyreal Dominion<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Now, this is a band that most certainly likes to dabble in the complex side of metal \u2013 offering up such song titles in the past as \u2018Sardonic Equilibrium Decree Humiliating Imkhullu\u2019, \u2018Peripheral Profligacy Of Transcendental Lower World\u2019 and \u2018Uncircumscribed Delinquency At The Gates Of Anu\u2019 \u2013 so it\u2019s no surprise then that this time around the theme of technicality continues. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re treated to such gems as \u2018Noncelestical Orisons Cataclised In The Passage Of Ninib\u2019, \u2018Mystic Transformation In Encrypted Scrolls Of A Grievous Sermon\u2019 and \u2018Aberrant Ablution By Filthy Excrements Of A Grotesque Crassamentum\u2019. It\u2019s all very bizarre indeed, but it\u2019s all part of the package as Decimation offers up some fiendishly guttural technical death metal which this time around feels a lot more accomplished and certainly lengthier than the previous effort. <\/p>\n

Complete with Dan Seagrave artwork, Reign Of Ungodly Creation<\/em> successfully mixes blast-beat coated death metal with the more engaging slower segments of complexity, all of which tend to result in being a battering ram that ought to feel more bewildering than it actually is. Sadly, at times anyway, it feels that the instruments appear muffled, almost blending into one another so that the vocal coughs are hard to distinguish from the triggering drums and dense, brooding guitar sound. <\/p>\n

With these sorts of albums \u2013 y\u2019know, the kind which want to express their cleverness \u2013 I expect each instrument to jar the soul, extract marrow, snip sinews, and stretch membranes, but Decimation has always failed to escape from the fact that the sound appears rather drowned. And so what we get is a rather dull affair that is often catchy but unable to pose arrogantly as some complicated spectre of metal.<\/p>\n

As the titles become more and more absurd (\u2018Prophetic Despise Under The Pendulum Of A Sacrilegious Throne\u2019, \u2018Devilish Domain Vortex In The Gloom Of Wicked Ziggurat\u2019), the less complex and cosmic the album actually becomes \u2013 the percussion being a constant cosmic factor of energy but yet to a degree exhibiting some repetition, in spite of some truly memorable passages such as with \u2018Mystic Transformation In Encrypted Scrolls Of A Grievous Sermon\u2019. <\/p>\n

This is not the most extra-terrestrial offering you\u2019ll hear, the band seemingly content with dressing up matters with a flashiness which rarely rears its head. When the band is fast they rarely construct a wall of inaccessibility, the best of the barrages being \u2018Aberrant Ablution By Filthy Excrements Of A Grotesque Crassamentum\u2019, but again offers more as a slower, weightier groove. <\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m kind of intrigued yet disappointed knowing full well that these guys can sure offer a catchy melody, but seem bogged down by an almost cosy production where everything appears as rather harmless. Maybe Decimation has found that elusive niche between quizzical extreme metal and catchiness, but when someone offers up these sort of titles then I really want to be bamboozled and perplexed rather than comforted.<\/p>\n

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

DECIMATIONReign Of Ungodly Creation Comatose Music (2014)Rating: 7\/10 For a band so technical in its brutality, I\u2019m surprised that Turkey\u2019s Decimation didn\u2019t opt for a more intriguing band moniker. This trio has been around since 1999 and Reign Of Ungodly Creation is their third full-length outing, coming some four years after 2010\u2019s Anthems Of An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-decimation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566","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=22566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22566\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}