Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 24/04/2020
Label: Sepuchral Voice Records
“Endless Wound” CD//DD//LP track listing:
1). Charnel Rift
2). Crowned in (Floral) Vice
3). Enraptured by Decay
4). Seared Eyes
5). Lifeless Sanctum
6). Endless Wound
7). Finality I Behold
The Review:
As soon as the record begins the listener
is immediately assaulted with thick guitars and hammer blasts. Shortly after we
get deep bellows of a mad monster. It feels like being picked up by an enormous
creature and tossed around all while being yelled at. Maybe this is what it
feels like to be dragged into Hell.
Black Curse is yet another member of the ridiculously
brilliant death metal scene in Denver
It might be true that I just finished
watching Attack on Titan and that is undoubtedly influencing my thoughts on
this but the idea of death metal sounding like the sonic equal to being tossed
around like a tiny doll by giants should be intriguing enough. Beyond the
violence though, Black Curse knows how to write a riff that demands physical
action of anyone at a live show there to move and even those notorious arm
crossers will be undoubtedly making the stank face (you know the one). In
short, its death metal you can mosh to as the grooves push the adrenaline up in
a way that most bands can only dream of.
Tonally, it is solid at how it accomplishes
a thick atmosphere like a bursting fire and the smoke it emits. When the
guitars and bass sync up it’s an unstoppable force, especially as the drums
pound with an incredibly loud snare. They’ll come in waves, sometimes dropping
down to just a bass or guitar line just to be ravaging again in a few seconds
later. There are parts that could be called guitar solos but they end up
sounding more like bursts of noise, a fact that I appreciate. As good as the
riffs are though, it is the diversity in the vocal department that keeps songs
from becoming stale as they range from high rasps to deep gutturals and are a high point
The only real flaw here is that the record
is so violent that its near 40 minutes time feels a bit exhausting to endure by
the end of it. It is sort of a natural thing for this kind of music, for me
anyways. It’s why few of my favorite grindcore albums are longer than half an
hour. That isn’t to say that Black Curse is grind at all, only that they
share a similar sense of sheer aggression.
Still, I really enjoy Black Curse as they currently
exist. The band being so punishing sets them apart from their more atmospheric,
methodic, and moody peers in Colorado
