Thorybos - Monuments of Doom Revealed
Though this band was formed in 2008, Monuments of Doom Revealed is their first official release. Prior to this, their musical output was composed of rehearsal recordings and a 2010 promo recording. I had initially thought that this band was going to be either straight-forward Black Metal or maybe a Doom band, a quick glance at the names of the band members told me all I needed to know about them. Face it, when you have band members with names like “Deathpriest Goatcommander of Black Abyss and Morbid Bestiality” and “Gasmasked Flagellant of the Innocent,” Blasphemy and Beherit played a major role in your Black Metal upbringing. In this case, Blasphemy looms large. Monuments of Doom Revealed is brutal and in your face Black/Death Metal from the beginning of the first actual song to the end of the last track. Once you get past the intro, it’s essentially a musical beat-down with pauses in between tracks. Unlike other bands in this genre, the production on this album is fairly good while still maintaining the brutal onslaught. Thorybos has that “wall of sound” style, but things are still discernible. You can tell that these guys are actually playing riffs and there is some substantive music underneath the distortion. Fans of Blasphemy, Black Witchery and Deiphago will probably find Monuments of Doom Revealed to be right up their alley. While I’m not a huge fan of the Blasphemy-influenced Black/Death Metal style, I appreciate it when a band remembers to kick ass and this certainly does that in spades.
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