VOMIT OF DOOM — Obey The Darkness (review)

VOMIT OF DOOM — Obey The Darkness album cover Album · 2015 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Patagonia is obsessed in the modern era with the blackened thrash metal bands that haunted the early 1980s finding more influence from Venom, Hellhammer, Slayer and early Bathory than the more recent developments in the modern world of metal music. Granted there’s nothing like live performances of classic thrash metal attacks that allow you to just sink into the music without getting all heady therefore the retro scene is alive and well in both Chile and Argentina. VOMIT OF DOOM comes from the city of General Roca from the Río Negra region of Southern Argentina. This band formed in 2009 and has released two albums, a few demos and numerous splits.

The band’s first album OBEY THE DARKNESS emerged in 2015 with the lineup of L.W.P. Venomous Abominator (drums, vocals), D.D. Profanador (guitar) and Samael (bass). Of course with a name like VOMIT OF DOOM i am wondering if there could be a Christian metal counterpart called Vomit of Salvation? LOL. This is definitely one of those evil as fuck bands that delivers a no nonsense thundering display of heavy thrash metal in the vein of early Slayer only infused with the over-the-top Satanism of Mercyful Fate, Venom and Hellhammer. At only 32 1/2 minutes long, VOMIT OF DOOM delivers a powerful punch of classic blackened thrash that evokes a sense of the past only delivered with a modern infusion of rage and bravado.

While many of these modern retro bands can sound fairly generic, VOMIT OF DOOM is above average in the musical department not that the composiitons are original or anything that will shock you but rather in how well seasoned the musicians sound with the incessant attack of dueling guitar riffs and percussive bombast. Endless Malevolence offers some killer soloing guitar squeals that evoke a sloppy virtuosity that was all the craze in the early underground 80s with bands like Venom evolving a new style of raw unshackled metal rage in the form of black metal. Likewise drummer and vocalist Venomous Abominator not only delivers some serious percussive skills but has the perfect sickened vocal style that suits the gritty rawness of this musical bombast.

For those who can’t get enough of the blackened thrash metal attack before the two genres distinctly became their own, this proto-black metal sound really does evoke the glory days while competently delivering it to audiences that long for the glory days but never had the opportunity to exist in the time and place where all the black magic was brewing. While i would hardly call this debut a classic of any sort, i do have to say that it’s a pleasant rampage through its incessant brutal playing time and a nice little trip in the wayback machine. Nothing new, nothing original but fun and i’m sure these guys put on a fiery live show as the energy level is firing on all pistons.
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