Album Type: Full Length
Date
Released: 14/04/2017
Label: Season of Mist
“Satanic
Slavery” CD//DD//LP track listing:
1.Sprawl of Sin
2.Tredeciman Blackfire
3.Satanic Slavery
4.Evil Names
5.Hellspawn Pyre
6.Bestial Rites
7.Curse of Blasphemy
8.Verses from the Depths
The Review:
There's
rigor mortis. There's decay. There's profound deliquescence. And then there's Necrowretch.
“Satanic
Slavery” is the third full length for these French madmen, and the old
school approach to death metal here is almost ancestral in its atavism.
While there are some Gallic contemporaries kicking out similar barbarisms, like
Venefixion,
and while there are obvious comparisons to Angelcorpse and Incantation, what really gets me
charged up about this album is how much, for me, it evokes early Sadus
and, to a lesser extent, Morbid Saint. I'm talking “Certain Death” era Sadus
here. It's in the spastic energy. It's in the unhinged nature of the vocals. It
is in the fact that the music feels ever so slightly 'dangerous' in that
classic 'if you are a false, do not entry' way.
I'm
at a bit of loss to really identify highlights as the album is pretty
relentlessly excellent. Songs that really stand out for me in terms of brutally
catchy hooks would be “Tredeciman Blackfire”, the title
track and the closer, “Verses from the Depths”. However,
the real standout factors for me are the decipherability of the thick
bass, amazing runs like the Annihilator evocative riff midway through “Sprawl
of Sin”, and the reverb-soaked vocals. This album is immensely
enjoyable, almost ebullient in its putrid malevolence.
This
corpse is filthy and moving indefatigably and relentlessly under its rotten
machinery. For something so embedded with crust, rust and cadaverous
unmentionables, it is an incredibly refreshing, riff-dense monster of an album.
Who would have thought such a breath of fresh air would have come from the
tomb? Elegantly and savagely decomposed.
“Satanic
Slavery”
is available here
