(written by Islander)
Damned Fallen Angels is the debut album of the New England black/death band Cruentation, whose lineup includes current or former members of Witch Tomb, Impenitent Thief, Hirudenia, Cemetery Lights, Martyrvore, Ninnixu, and Embryonic Cryptopathia (among others). The album is set for release by Iron Bonehead Productions on September 26th.
Upon hearing the album’s title track when it debuted in early July, we advised people to “prepare for a vicious assault of furiously battering percussion, heavily undulating bass lines, caustically churning riffage, and grotesque vocal abominations, piercingly accented by a lead guitar’s berserk screams.” But we also advised that the song was a two-headed monster:
“The song also slows, becoming a big stalking menace that’s dismally oppressive in its mood, but the riffing also heats up again, like inflamed carnivorous insects rapidly surging into flesh. These fashionings of frenzy and morbid gloom trade places until the end, a ghastly tandem for sure.”
And now we have another debut from the album, a song called “Prayers In Piss“.
Similar to the title track, “Prayers In Piss” launches itself like a rapidly churning maelstrom of filth and fury, again backed by remorselessly punishing drum-work and disemboweling bass contortions, and again fronted by utterly deranged vocals — though the shrieking delirium of the lead guitar sounds even more unhinged.
But as in the title song, Cruentation switch things up. This time they assault the listener with corrosive channel-shifting jolts and miasmas of dense roiling riffage, and then downshift to drag us through sonic pits of congealing viscera and abject misery. The music hideously crawls and horribly moans, peppered with tremolo’d swarms of madness and expulsions of terrifying vocal monstrosity.
If you’re looking for truly bestial music, music that’s hateful and hideous, music that’s equal parts nightmarishly violent, foul, and fetid, you’ve come to the right place. You will find no mercy and no remorse.
Iron Bonehead will release Damned Fallen Angels on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will be available for purchase on September 26th. Check the links below for more info (also below you’ll find a stream of the album’s title track discussed above).
IRON BONEHEAD:
https://ironbonehead.de/
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions
CRUENTATION:
https://cruentation1.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Cruentation/100083550304988/