Malepeste is French black metal that has that swampy diesel
motor powered, down-tuned rumble of distortion with croaky vocals that
instantly bring to mind old Mayhem and Inquisition. With this sound and bands
like Malepeste continuing to brew their own toxic elixir with it, it’s becoming
so difficult to avoid being entranced and subsequently bastardized into the
warped and diabolical sounds and the
artists mindsets!!!! The sound of Malepeste overall is as skuzzy as a run down
subway urinal at one of the worst stops in the city that hasn’t been cleaned in
50+ years: it’s all sorts of green fuzzy stuff crawling, bits of black tar,
urine stench and yellow-brown scum crust rings, mildew, cockroaches, and
decaying rat shit.
“Such a Prayer for Evil” is 110% croaky vocals with
occasional wolfish howls thrown in, together with some of the angular and abstract
rhythms and structures of Deathspell Omega circa Fas… through Si Monumentum…,
and then on top of all that the entire song is completely saturated in some
sort of demonic fungal grime and muck that makes it ugly and oozing like a
plague in it’s viral larvae form. There are moments of bleak atmospheres and
esoteric hymns, done without symphonic assistance to keep it organic and
haunting, but don’t get too comfortable as those are trampled over by the
outbursts of mechanized guitar fuzz that covers everything like a black oil
drizzle disguised as a fog.
“Black Scream” really boasts some balls in the “oomph”
rumbles of rhythm guitar and low-end bombing riffs that literally break through
unexpectedly during a more melodic and spacious place in the song as a literal
“OOMPH”, drums and all. It reminds me of a bit of old black thrash mastery with
a massive bulldozer across the jaw punch behind it.
“Soul Rapist” reminds me of old Sodom (Obsessed By Cruelty
and In the Sign of Evil) with the venomous spit gurgling reptilian vocals that
include spur of the moment incantations that literally are soaked in reverb
with out effects (!), it’s like a fiery cyclone of demonic obsessions,
possessions and a slaughtering rhythm frenzy in this song!!!! The ups and
downs, spaces for breathing and esoteric/ancient/cryptic moods amidst vehement
murderous rituals make this an intense and harrowing listen as one truly feels
they are becoming a part of a society that goes beyond secret and unruly.
“The Feast” is another swampy “OOMPHY” bomb raid of
distortion, violent riffs, angular and sharp guitar work and a category 7 storm
of hate and fury. The song starts out with a razorlike, jagged arpeggiated
theme that very soon after, bursts into the thrust and maniacal beast that is
Malpeste, but there’s also this sort of doomy bass/guitar rhythm that comes in
between the intro theme and the rotten meat feast of this apocalyptic and
horrid tale (probably of cannibalism by hedonistic ritual to consume the weak
in their entirety. Seriously evil and filthy stuff here, it really does feel
like it covers the listener in some sort of black reptilian phlegm.
This is occult black metal in the reptilian, swampy,
sludgey, maniacal, raw, defleshing, morbid, heinous, and horror fueled vain. So
fans of: the real Mayhem, early to great Deathspell Omega, Inquisition,
Gravewurm, Profanatica, Cultes Des Ghoules, and Beherit will want this ugly and
gruesome phlegmy black plague.
Available on a very
limited cassette run so grab this one asap.
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