{"id":74212,"date":"2018-08-17T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=74212"},"modified":"2018-11-12T19:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:26:38","slug":"album-review-act-of-impalement-perdition-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-act-of-impalement-perdition-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT OF IMPALEMENT – Perdition Cult (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACT OF IMPALEMENT
Perdition Cult<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCaligari \/ Unspeakable Axe (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Coming with more crust than Satan\u2019s own loaf of bread is Act Of Impalement; the sort of hideous hybrid band that can so easily churn out vile heaps of grinding crust one minute and the next cough up a doomy, death metal cyst of drudgery.<\/p>\n

Perdition Cult<\/em> is another of my favourite albums to emerge in 2018, the guys behind it \u2013 Ethan \u201cDark Druid\u201d Rock (vocals and guitars), James \u201cJimmy\u201d de Rais (bass) and Zack \u201cVlad\u201d Ledbetter (drums) \u2013 making such a hideous sound as black, sodden waves of sludging doom marry up with guttural death metal nuances before a sudden tide of black-cum-death thrashing interrupts.<\/p>\n

Nashville, Tennessee is the home of this trio, and it\u2019s certainly taken them a while to get this debut opus on the racks. Now it\u2019s here though, I can\u2019t praise it enough, the threesome constructing monolithic slabs of stinking slop before injecting their mass of burnt decay with blistering expressions of thrash.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Smoldering Out Of Existence\u2019 begins in morose fashion, but soon speeds up into a chaotic feeding frenzy before suddenly resorting to a blackened, smouldering scowl \u2013 the vocals shifting from rotten rasps to deathly bellows before an almost punky, crust-coated riff brings us back to the galloping slog.<\/p>\n

Act Of Impalement dishes out buckets of wet dirt as \u2018Disembowelment Rituals Of Moloch\u2019 begins its timely, atmospheric trudge; the silted riffs churn and boil to a slow-motion bellow and then we\u2019re off again, succumbing to a blast of murky speed with a caustic, black metal casing. Then the bass shifts into a truly despondent rattle, almost like a rib-cage struggling to deal with the depths of pneumonia.<\/p>\n

\u2018Draugr\u2019 opts for hyper blasts of aggression and utmost speed. This is sickening black \/ death bluster at its fastest and most primeval, but always lurking within is that air of funeral doom built upon a solitary drum nod and that clanking bass din.<\/p>\n

Highlights are aplenty. The squalid \u2018Ruins Of Sarnath\u2019 again hints at that remote, frenzied horror brimming with dank quality and mushy chugging, and \u2018S.L.R (Sadistic Lycanthropic Rage)\u2019 features a killer damp lead before the track embarks on a hellish, thrashing velocity \u2013 the ghoulish gallop a truly bleak and nauseous black metal trudge. Meanwhile, \u2018Eternal Flame \u2013 Eternal Bliss\u2019 features a high pitched wail from Ethan Rock before we\u2019re mashed to pieces in a crippling blast of speed and Swedish-styled chainsaw toil.<\/p>\n

Closer \u2018Cthonic\u2019 tightens its hold by bringing blacker, billowing death-thrash to the table as another eye-gouging groove meanders through the belching brutality. That\u2019s the key here; the catchy and ultra-heavy structures grind like well-soiled cogs that leak into their own quicksand psyche, bringing to the fore what is essentially an engaging match up of styles, and all of which succeed in what is a nightmarish experience for the listener.<\/p>\n

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

ACT OF IMPALEMENTPerdition Cult Caligari \/ Unspeakable Axe (2018)Rating: 8.5\/10 Coming with more crust than Satan\u2019s own loaf of bread is Act Of Impalement; the sort of hideous hybrid band that can so easily churn out vile heaps of grinding crust one minute and the next cough up a doomy, death metal cyst of drudgery. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4214,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-of-impalement","category-album-ep-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212","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=74212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74213,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212\/revisions\/74213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}