SEPTYCAL GORGE

Brutal Death Metal • Italy
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Septycal Gorge is a Italian technical brutal death metal act that formed during 2004 in Turin, Piedmont. They released their first demo the same year and then an EP in 2005, Delivering Hidden Mutilation.

This was followed by the debut full-length album Growing Seeds of Decay in 2006 and a second demo in 2007. The band then was featured on the split release Da Vinci Death Code which also featured the acts Fleshgod Apocalypse, Modus Delicti and Onirik in 2008.

The band has then since released a further two full-length albums. 2009's Erase the Insignificant and 2014's Scourge of the Formless Breed.

- Biography by adg211288 (August 2014).
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SEPTYCAL GORGE Growing Seeds of Decay album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Growing Seeds of Decay
Brutal Death Metal 2006
SEPTYCAL GORGE Erase the Insignificant album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Erase the Insignificant
Brutal Death Metal 2009
SEPTYCAL GORGE Scourge of the Formless Breed album cover 3.95 | 2 ratings
Scourge of the Formless Breed
Brutal Death Metal 2014

SEPTYCAL GORGE EPs & splits

SEPTYCAL GORGE Delivering Hidden Mutilation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Delivering Hidden Mutilation
Brutal Death Metal 2005
SEPTYCAL GORGE Da Vinci Death Code album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Da Vinci Death Code
Brutal Death Metal 2008

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SEPTYCAL GORGE Promo 2004 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Promo 2004
Brutal Death Metal 2004
SEPTYCAL GORGE Promo 2007 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Promo 2007
Brutal Death Metal 2007

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SEPTYCAL GORGE Scourge of the Formless Breed

Album · 2014 · Brutal Death Metal
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Scourge of the Formless Breed (2014) is the third full-length album by Italian technical brutal death metal act Septycal Gorge. The album marks the group's return to the metal scene after a five year break between releases. Since Erase the Insignificant (2009) was released Septycal Gorge have parted with their bassist and are currently operating as a four-piece with the bass handled on Scourge of the Formless Breed by a session musician.

Scourge of the Formless Breed is a concept album on the topic on cosmogony (the theory of the coming into existence of the cosmos or universe) and the nine track album is split equally into three chapters entitled Protogenesis, Rebellion and Obliteration respectively. It's obvious from this subject matter that Septycal Gorge wants to be something a bit more in the brutal death metal scene than just another gore themed act, which is an impression I get from some of their earlier song titles which feature names such as Deformed Heretic Impalement, Redneck Slanderous Mutation and Poisoned Human Flesh. Unfortunately as is often the case with the most extreme of metal styles the growling vocals used on Scourge of the Formless Breed are very much indiscernible to my ears so no matter how complex or clever a concept Septycal Gorge have come up with here it's like the musical equivalent of being lost in translation.

Fortunately for Septycal Gorge on the other hand they do at least have a pretty solid death metal offering here. While said growls are difficult to follow frontman Mariano Somá more or less sticks to a very deep style and does feel the need to vary it with irritations such as pig squeals (which are an instant turn-off for me). The musicianship is pretty solid too featuring a strong technical edge on the brutal death metal sound that quite often puts me in mind of what Septycal Gorge's countrymen Hour of Penance did on their album Sedition (2012). I don't want to use the term clone act here because let's face it, it's a rare death metal act that really stands out from the crowd these days and on Scourge of the Formless Breed Septycal Gorge have an album that holds my attention all the way through and that's probably something only one in five death metal albums can do. The rather short running time of about 32 minutes no doubt helps on that front. It's a duration that feels ideal for this sort of music.

While I would like to be able to dig deeper into the concept the band have got going here, on a purely musical front this is a pretty great from Septycal Gorge and I see no reason to deny Scourge of the Formless Breed a four star rating.

79/100

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven: http://metaltube.freeforums.org/septycal-gorge-scourge-of-the-formless-breed-t3723.html)

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adg211288 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
That artwork for Scourge of the Formless Breed...now that's what I call a death metal cover art.

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