#Total annihilation intro skin

In this way, they remind me of the more extreme Northern storms like 1349, but with a mildly less surgical and technical approach to the riff writing. Of course, if you seek simply to have your face ripped off by songs that make Marduk and Mayhem sound like elevator muzak, then Burial Hordes also provides you with fare like 'Unholy, Ultra-Violent Domination' and 'Army of Heretics' which will reduce you to nuclear ash.įilthy, indomitable, and borne of pure punishing abyss-winds, this is a debut destined to appeal to those that seek out black metal for no other reason than skull fractures and slipped vertebrae.

The architecture of hostile, minor melodies that introduce 'Cosmic Genocide' drip like nihilistic vampire fangs over its bruising black acceleration, and 'The Rapture of Hatred' builds itself brick by brick like a tower of blood-mortared stones. 'Aeons of Hell' baits the audience with further lightning fervor before lurching into a twist of colon crushing chords.

#Total annihilation intro skin

Ominous, dark tolling heralds the churning mass of 'Bestial Bloodwar' which is just so caustic and loud that it peels any layers remaining, epidermal innocence from the skin of the listener. War, Revenge and Total Annihilation is all too apt a title for their full-length debut, for while it might not be the most unique or enduring slab of black aggression on the block, it is without any doubt destructive. Both first and second wave sounds are heard in their punishing meat sculptures, from Bathory and Celtic Frost to Mayhem, and at least here on their debut, they have this nasty take no prisoners mentality involving an incendiary and writhing addiction to blasted speed that they wisely alternate with breakdowns into moody, dissonant nightmares or surges of mid-paced, spine rocking chords that summon up memories of Hellhammer and Darkthrone. One of the more wretched and vile Greek black metal entities, the Burial Hordes were unearthed in the early 21st century to wreak havoc through a number of scathing demos that culled influence from the very roots of the black metal genre.