(written by Islander)

Vér is the name of a quintet from Budapest, Hungary who made their public debut with a demo in September 2024. It grabbed the attention of Me Saco Un Ojo Records, which released the demo on tape early the next year. And now that same label is about one month away from releasing Vér’s debut album, A Féreg Pusztulása.

Not having heard that demo, our first impression of Vér’s music, as captured on the album, was formed by the press materials we received — such as this:

Rare in the death metal realm does a record maintain resolutely old-school influences – the squirming horror of early Cemetary, the alternating gallop & tank-tread of equally early Grave, the angular beatdown of mid-’90s Immolation, the swarming miasma of early ’90s Absu – whilst emitting an essence that it is refreshing and (re)invigorating. Such is the case with A Féreg Pusztulása.

Those same press materials also made reference to the band’s “labyrinthine mindset” in their approach to songwriting, and that rings true repeatedly over the course of the album, and definitely in the case of the album’s title song, which we’re now premiering. Continue reading »