{"id":30723,"date":"2015-03-31T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=30723"},"modified":"2015-06-08T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T22:05:14","slug":"album-review-ad-nauseam-nihil-quam-vacuitas-ordinatum-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ad-nauseam-nihil-quam-vacuitas-ordinatum-est\/","title":{"rendered":"AD NAUSEAM – Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (2015) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

AD NAUSEAM
Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est<\/strong><\/span>
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\nLavadome Productions (2015)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nothing beats a fix of jarring and at times bewildering death metal. Italy\u2019s Ad Nauseam are the latest exponents of experimental extreme metal; rising out of Schio in 2011, this quartet has clearly thought long and hard about this release and come up with a progressive cacophony of nightmarish proportions. <\/p>\n

Apparently, some of the songs on offer here have been some five years in the making and believe me, you won\u2019t hear anything else like this for a while. Indeed, members Andrea P. (vocals \/ guitar), Matteo G. (guitar), Matteo B. (bass) and Andrea S. (drums) should be commended for such an unconventional assault on the senses.<\/p>\n

Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est<\/em> is one of those special extreme metal records that comes along when you least expect it, but when it does strike you\u2019re so unprepared that you often have to take leave from its layers in order to take it all in. <\/p>\n

So what we get with this debut opus are eight relatively lengthy tracks \u2013 the shortest being five-and-a-half minutes and the longest at over ten. From the off, it\u2019s a perplexing array of technical death metal that at certain times may have you staring quizzically at the stereo to make sure the record \/ disc hasn\u2019t skipped! <\/p>\n

Opener \u2018My Buried Dream\u2019 begins with a suspenseful screech, but then lurches into a truly jarring soundscape of jazzed up death metal reminiscent of the sort of multi-layered techniques that the likes of Atheist et al plundered in the early 90s. However, this is more frantic and even less accessible \u2013 the bass-lines seemingly cavorting, twisting and flipping in order to toy with the avalanche of percussion. Oddly, the drums are rarely brutal but merely infrequent taps and perverse beats which contradict the unorthodox riffs and epileptic leads. Indeed, the only apparent \u201cnormal\u201d quality about the record are the vocals. Yep, thankfully they are just death metal grunts, but they too have to contend with the pulverising display performed by those manic yet ever-changing chords and tumbling drum escapades. <\/p>\n

\u2018Key To Timeless Laws\u2019 begins with an effective barrage then throws in a few hyper blast-beats to complement the obdurate hammer drums, but here I\u2019m reminded somewhat of the cosmic creations of Nocturnus. Although the whole thing flows, there is just not one second when the quartet rests on a certain beat or rhythm, each track existing as a hot-bed of jolting, quaking and juddering extremity. Forget banging your head to this; instead, you\u2019ll spend most of the duration scratching your cranium until the skin begins to flay. <\/p>\n

One cannot ignore the utter quality of this intricate battering ram of a record; the aforementioned \u2018Key To Timeless Laws\u2019 takes on so many twists and turns that you\u2019ll be feeling as if your brain has been turned upside down, and when one considers the length of each track, your ears won\u2019t know what\u2019s going on by the time \u2018La Maison Diev\u2019 has delivered its extreme pattern shifts. I\u2019m not going to lie, it\u2019s going to take a bold or stupid traveller to dive into this labyrinth of sound and attempt to unravel its layers, because Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est<\/em> harbours a multitude of perplexing mysteries \u2013 each barrage unfolding and presenting itself like some esoteric and cosmic code.<\/p>\n

\u2018Into The Void Eye\u2019 begins in measured fashion, but the drums are soon rampant and playing with those gargantuan yet metamorphosing chords. The vocals shift between yaps and growls but again are the only constant feature to latch on to, the rest of the sound being a distorted and disorientating maze. In fact, even after a few spins, Ad Nauseam\u2019s debut offering is a difficult one to review as I\u2019m still alienated by a number of tracks; I\u2019m bewildered by the rampaging \u2018Lost In The Antiverse\u2019 and equally befuddled by the behemoths \u2018The Black Veil Of Original Flaw\u2019 and \u2018Superimposing Mere Will And Sheer Need\u2019 \u2013 both of which are complex networks of rattling drums, bemusing bass and confusing rhythms.<\/p>\n

Albums of this nature are nigh on impossible to pin down; flipping, churning, reversing, spinning, gambolling and convulsing through its entirety, and oh how I wish I could give it a higher rating but an eight is at once a compliant and yet a reflection as to its cosmically complex aura. Lump this manifestation in with Gorguts and the likes, and only visit when truly prepared for brainwashing!<\/p>\n

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

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