Bands: Serpents Athirst/Genocide Shrines/Trepanation/Heresiarch
Title: Scorn Coalescence
Genre: Bestial Black/Death Metal
Time: 22.22 min
Release date: 26th July 2019
Vote: 75/100
There is a lot of
war metal (
Profane Order,
Pig's Blood,
Hatevömit) in these last times on
Timpani allo Spiedo 'zine, and today I keep on reviewing releases of this kind with this fantastic 4-way split entitled "
Scorn Coalescence" that I received through
Qabar Extreme Music PR. Released by the Indian label
Cyclopean Eye Productions, it see an unholy and destructive alliance between two entities coming from
Sri Lanka (
Serpents Athirst and
Genocide Shrines) and other two coming instead from
New Zealand (
Trepanation and
Heresiarch), a small country very known for these particular sonorities. Each of them presents here an
exclusive track for this split, except for Genocide Shrines, whose "
All and/or Nothing" was previously released in some recent live albums. And be sure that each of them is perfect to
destroy completely your ears, and the nicer thing is that this split, as you'll see soon, becomes
sicker song after song!
"
Scorn Coalescence" starts with the Sri Lankan side through
Serpents Athirst. Born in
2011, I knew of their blasphemous existence in
2015, when the same Cyclopean Eye Prod, along with the Irish label
Invictus Productions, spewed forth their "
Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration" EP. Well, their song into this split is called "
Poisoning the Seven", that shows an
obsessive and blasting black/death metal (more black than death, to say the truth), containing, besides an intro with militaristic drums, a great performance full of hateful screams by the singer
Reverend Khaostorm. This is only the beginning...
but what a fukken beginning!
The massacre continues with
Genocide Shrines. Born in
2011, too, and strong of a debut album published in
2015 by the same
Cyclopean Eye Prod, this band, whose drummer plays also the guitar in Serpents Athirst, is somehow very particular since their lyrical themes, that mixes war metal topics with some religious suggestions taken from their land. Also their sound is a bit particular, as perfectly exemplified by "
All and/or Nothing", that's the longer song of the split since its 8 minutes circa of lenght. In comparison to the Serpents Athirst's "Poisoning the Seven", it's more
death metal-oriented (also as for the growling vocals) and is well dynamic so to range from parts in blast-beat to an
abyssic, doomish sequence in the middle where there are not only riffs with a somehow
oriental flavour but even some curious atmospheric sounds in the background. There is need to say that the general result is
very intriguing, even though both Serpents Athirst and Genocide Shrines
can't be easily described as bestial black/death metal bands in a strict sense, also because their songs are well produced and listenable.
Instead, the
true bestial black/death metal sounds of the split starts with the New Zealand side through
Trepanation. I've to say that their "
B/H/T" amazed me a lot thanks to a
bestial and grinding assault made
more ferocious by a fantastic alternation between growls and demented screams, and also made
more incredibly sick by a
disturbing and constant sort of feedback, so the band is even a bit
experimental in a way that can remind me of
Tetragrammacide. In practice, Trepanation, that are still without full-lenght albums since their foundation in
2012, are
really good at combining the classic side of the bestial black/death metal genre with its more experimental side influenced by
power electronics.
And, to end the split with the
fireworks, now it's the turn of
Heresiarch, surely the most experienced and known band of the entire pack, and already reviewed on these pages for their
"Incursions" compilation. The 6-minute "
Dread Prophecy" is without any doubts
THE most typical bestial black/death metal track of "Scorn Coalescence" since it's so fast, chaotic and cavernous as it should be while its end is fantastic because it is characterized by a
doom sequence very useful to drown the listeners in a
sea of agony and anguish. I think that, maybe, the sound is sometimes too chaotic (for example, some riffs are practically undecipherable) because of a very raw production but, fuck that, this is war metal,
not pop music canned for the lobotomized masses!
In conclusion, "
Scorn Coalescence", while we are waiting for more consistent releases by each of the bands into this split, is a
must have for every war metal maniac worthy of this name and, of the 4 bands, I must confess that I liked especially
Trepanation (that in
2018 toured in New Zealand even with
Bölzer!) since they are really sick
like few others. What can I say more? Nothing, so I think that you
must start to listen to these 22 minutes of "
campaign for musical destruction", and I am sure that they
will not disappoint you!
Tracklist:
1 - Poisoning the Seven (Serpents Athirst)
2 - All and/or Nothing (Genocide Shrines)
3 - B/H/T (Trepanation)
4 - Dread Prophecy (Heresiarch)
Line-up:
Serpents Athirst:
Reverend Khaostorm - vocals
Visharadha Kasun Nawarathna - guitars
Decimator - bass
Obliterator - drums
Genocide Shrines:
Tridenterrorcult - vocals
NarkotikPerversor - guitars
Khaoshiva - bass
BlasphemousWarGoat - drums
Trepanation:
AJ - vocals/guitars
RM - vocals/bass
GB - drums
Heresiarch:
N.H. - vocals
C.S. - guitars
W.B. - bass
H.G. - drums
Serpents Athirst's FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/serpents.athirst
Genocide Shrines's FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/genocideshrines
Trepanation's FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/trepanation666
Heresiarch's FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/heresiarchband/
Cyclopean Eye Productions: https://www.facebook.com/cyclopeaneye
Qabar Extreme Music PR: https://www.facebook.com/qabarpr/
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