By: Richard Maw
Album Type: EP
Date Released: 06/05/2016
Label: Sepulchral
Voice Records |
Profound Lore
Profound Lore
“Endless
Pilgrimage” puts them streets ahead of many of their deathly peers and frankly If
you enjoyed Cruciamentum's debut album and are looking for a different take on
death metal from the British Isles, this should be your next stop. Deliciously
dark and very good.
“Endless Pilgrimage” CD//DD track
listing:
1). Yama Transform to the Afterlife
2). Utterance of the Foulest Spirit
3). Purgative Circumvolution
4). Glorification of the Impure
5). Full Moon Dawn
The Review:
England's
finest purveyors of death/black nastiness return with this five track EP. To be
fair, clocking in at over thirty minutes makes this feel more like an album-
but EP is the official line so... Things kick off with “Yama Transforms to Afterlife”
which is dark, dense and reverbed all over. Riffs come thick and fast,
atonal lead breaks abound and the band sounds suitably demonic.
Make
no mistake, tracks such as “Utterance of The Foulest Spirit”
are NOTHING like the death metal produced in the US or Sweden. This is more
like a speeded up Hooded Menace- it is
that dark and unpleasant. Double bass drums roll, vocals growl, beats sound as
much black as death- and good to hear a kit which is not just a series of
computerised samples, too.
The
frantic start to “Purgative Circumvolution” is a
direct approach that suits the band and the EP well. Of course, a small amount
of this kind of despair and hatred goes a long way. The band have played to
their strengths by going for a release of this length. You remember the tracks,
it's listenable in one session and it has the directness of a band presenting
its best qualities in a short time frame. All of this paragraph also applies to
“Glorification
of the Impure”, which rages from the off, but takes in twists and
turns in time feel. The lead work is again excellent and marks out the band as
having their own sound and approach. The screams which end it are unpleasant
and unsettling...
“Full Moon Dawn” closes up this unsettling little EP with a more
progressive approach- eight minutes of spiky and angular music. Grave Miasma are a fine band and have their own sound- this
puts them streets ahead of many of their deathly peers, frankly. If you enjoyed
Cruciamentum's debut album and are looking for a different
take on death metal from the British Isles, this should be your next stop.
Deliciously dark and very good.
