Written by Kep
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory
> Sludge/dying metallic
> Queensland, Australia
> Releasing January 19
> Transcending Obscurity Information
I’m a well-established fan of just about each venture that multi-instrumentalist and Resin Tomb guitarist Brendan Auld is concerned in. Actually, my overview of the Feculent debut was the fifth factor I wrote for Noob Heavy (I gave it an 8/10), and my overview of Descent’s newest, which kicked off 2022 right here on the web site, incorporates a comparable first paragraph to this one. Auld‘s solo venture Snorlax is considered one of my faves, and I firmly imagine that everybody is sleeping on Daedric Armour, a nifty little Elder Scrolls-themed black metallic outfit through which he performs drums. His recording and manufacturing studio Black Blood Audio has additionally dealt with a ton of killer shit, from releases from bands like Pustilence, Idle Smash, and Malignant Aura to a great deal of underground hardcore and d-beat. As you would possibly count on, I additionally actually dug Resin Tomb’s early EPs, and was extraordinarily pumped once I noticed they’d been signed by Transcending Obscurity and have been slated for a debut full-length.
The five-piece’s self-titled debut EP packed a nasty punch with 5 extremely aggressive and bewilderingly dissonant tracks throughout lower than 16 minutes, and miniature follow-up launch Unconsecrated // Ascendancyreceived a bit extra atmospheric regardless of its temporary seven-minute runtime. Cerebral Purgatory is the platonic preferrred of the 2 EPs’ musical ideas grown into full album type: tightly centered songwriting, extraordinary ranges of aggression, and sufficient hideous ambiance to make you suffocate. At 29 minutes it gained’t waste even a second of your time, however it’s not scant on ambition both; these eight tracks are removed from the type of paint-by-number aggression you would possibly count on for those who’re unfamiliar with Resin Tomb’s model.
That model is dissonant dying metallic within the vein of Replicant or Gorguts funneled via a filth-ridden combination of blackened sludge and grind. It’s full-throated ugliness, thick and dirty, however surprisingly atmospheric and with a great deal of readability within the execution. There are some merely monumental, monumental sounds on this document. Take a take heed to the gradual construct of the title observe (considered one of a pair the place the opening riff feels particularly Replicant-y), spending two full minutes to develop from a gnarly solo guitar lick to a lurching full band lumber to an enormous blasting furnace. Auld’s manufacturing is a large boon to the guitars: chords and equally chunky sounds are thick and muscular, whereas these dissonant strains attain and writhe and jut out with excellent vivid crunchy tone.
Vocalist Matt Budge spearheads the aggression with a stellar flip, balancing screaming highs and bestial chesty roars atop a robust basis of highly effective midrange bellowing screams. Drummer Perry Vedelago is extraordinarily spectacular as effectively, highly effective and pummeling with precision besides. He takes what are already some killer riffs and makes them downright infectious: his cymbal-dancing groove halfway via “Flesh Brick”, for instance (additional highlighted by a visitor vocal spot from Burial Pit’s Scott Tabone), is the type of stuff you stay up for on repeat listens.
And the riff-work from the axe trio of Auld (guitar), Matt Gordon (guitar), and Mitch Lengthy (bass)? High notch ass-kicking shit teeming with an optimum quantity of dissonance that ratchets up the ugliness with out going as far as to be inaccessible to the typical listener. I am keen on riffs just like the one “Human Confetti” is constructed on: deliberate, held-back tempo, twinging intervals that protrude out, filth-ridden raw-nerve tone, monster bass thwacking alongside under, nifty harmonizing to broaden the unique lick. And I defy any fan of Replicant to not instantly love “Scalded”, with its angular juts and twitchy chugs that play as effectively with enormous crashing 4/4 rhythms as they do towards blast beats. These tracks are so tight and so catchy, and so they aren’t hurting for selection both; twisting riffs within the vein of Sunless (“Purge Fluid”) and the aforementioned Replicant worship play effectively alongside tracks like opener “Dysphoria”, that lean extra immediately into ferocious dying metallic, albeit with a barbed type of dissonant slant. Actually, even with out a lot selection a 29-minute album isn’t a tough pay attention, however Cerebral Purgatory stays creative and fascinating all through.
THE BOTTOM LINE
In case you’re on the lookout for the primary actually filthy slab of monolithic dying metallic in 2024, look no additional than the sludgy suffocating violence of Cerebral Purgatory. Resin Tomb have delivered on the expectations set forth by their first two EP releases and gifted heavy music followers with a fraught and centered ball of nastiness that’s too catchy and aggressive to spin solely a couple of times.
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