{"id":88812,"date":"2021-03-05T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=88812"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:12:00","slug":"album-review-invultation-unconquerable-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-invultation-unconquerable-death\/","title":{"rendered":"INVULTATION – Unconquerable Death (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

INVULTATION
Unconquerable Death<\/strong><\/span>
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Every now and then it\u2019s nice to have your sorry carcass thrown into a furnace and shredded by flames. Here we are then with the second full-length release from Columbus, Ohio cult Invultation, a horrible satanic war metal outfit responsible for 2020\u2019s incredible Wolfstrap<\/em> debut.<\/p>\n

If the likes of Finland\u2019s Archgoat take your fancy then why not skinny dip into the ten tracks on offer here and find your skin ripped from the bones, your eye sockets filled with black molten liquid, your brain reduced to pulp, and your blood sprayed on a sacrificial altar.<\/p>\n

You just know this isn\u2019t going to be an easy ride when you read titles such as \u2018Necromaniacal Curse\u2019, \u2018Cathedral Of Impaled\u2019 and \u2018Insatiable Cruelty\u2019, but what I really like about this album is its ability, even through its fiery aggression, to maintain accessibility and, dare I say it, a hellish groove.<\/p>\n

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Lampe is responsible for every blood-soaked clank and clatter on this album, whether in the form of those deep, grinding guitar rushes, those fetid percussive slashes and those watery, gurgling vocal blurts.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hanged Mass\u2019 kicks things off. The eerie suspense makes sure you are bracing yourself, and then the candle flames are blown out with spit as a rusty hammering consumes your body and your room is suffocated by blackness, only dying embers and occasionally fiery flashes in the distance provide any light in what is essentially a pounding, unrelenting heap of blackened death.<\/p>\n

The title track keeps the pace; a seething, maniacal expression of hyper drums and gnashing guitar fury. Everything is obscure and above all stuffy as Lampe creates great walls of dripping humidity as the listener envisages dank hellish caverns and blast furnace cacophony.<\/p>\n

Unconquerable Death<\/em> is noisy, stressful and evil, and within the mesh of darkness there may be occasional slower passages such as with the opening chords of \u2018Banners Under The Moon\u2019, which has a doomy Slayer<\/a>-like quality clogged with that usual rustic charm of chaos you\u2019d expect from torrential hails of war metal.<\/p>\n

However, \u2018Cathedral Of Impaled\u2019 takes away any thought of respite as pistons hammer until springs and coils ping off and you\u2019re left with a sorry mess of billowing and blistering blubber. Here, the vocals are just squalid, squelching burps of mayhem and guttural nastiness.<\/p>\n

The grim chug of \u2018Breath Of The Lich\u2019 is downright dragging and murky, and even with the apparent pace there\u2019s a boggy, drowning feel. Meanwhile, \u2018All Flesh Falls Into Dust\u2019 just trudges with a mocking malevolence like some sorry band of sodden troops condemned to death into the muddy trenches.<\/p>\n

Continuing on from the barbaric extremes of last year\u2019s debut release, Unconquerable Death<\/em> just confirms what I already knew about Invulktation \u2013 that being that I\u2019m in the presence of a deep, churning quarry of musical disgust and decrepit brutality.<\/p>\n

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

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