The Summoning Bell

On their highly anticipated new album, Malthusian's fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting Death Metal.

Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band's opener "Red, Waiting". What follows is a flurry of murk and madness - blast beats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by Malthusian's palpable fury is suffocating; each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre. 

The Summoning Bell is a lighting of the pyre - each of the album's tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming - internal and external, a true end  to everything.

"We aimlessly search
Giving purpose to the nothing
Creating false comforts within 
To hold in an eternal abyss.

To exist between the dying sun and a rising moon
With a constant dull ache
Eyes closed
Bitter taste"

FFO: Grave Miasma, Morbid Angel, Portal, Blood Incantation, Nil