Malthusian - The Summoning Bell [Silver 2LP]

MALTHUSIAN sign to Relapse Records and unearth their deathly opus, 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"

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