VERMINOUS - The Curse
of the Antichrist (BLOOD HARVEST - 7"EP 2013)
This year, anno bastardi 2013, Verminous has
finally blessed us with not one, but two new recordings of theirs – and that
for me is some sort of an event, deserving a celebration in blood. Obviously
the most important is the release of the so long anticipated second full length
LP “The Unholy Communion” – for me it was ten long years of awaiting for it to
come. And well, that second album of the Swedes hasn’t disappointed me at all;
what’s more, it actually turned out to be even greater thing that I would
expect and I can sincerely say that “The Unholy Communion” belongs to my
favourite albums of the recent years and for sure will be in top three of the
metal albums of 2013 (whom with I don’t know yet, maybe with Watain and hopefully
Necrophobic, for which I have a great expectation!). But the album is not
everything as Verminous has also decided to release a seven inch EP single;
“The Curse of the Antichrist” it is called and has been released by Blood
Harvest and obviously I had to get a copy. This EP contains one new track plus
a couple of covers on side B, so in total we have only 8 minutes of music here,
but hell… what an awesome music it is!
The title track on side A, which is the new,
unreleased Verminous song, pretty much fits my impression on what the band did
on “The Unholy Communion” album. It is the same quality, devastating and killer
thrashing old school death metal; so powerful, so lethal and energetic, so
extremely vicious and obscure – and at the same time so hooky – that it is
impossible to resist it. It is fast and the riffs are just absolutely amazing;
I like everything about this song. It is a perfect tune, so every time I play
this EP I usually listen to this song like five or six times in a row, as it is
just so damn good. Screaming “The Curse of the Antichrist!!!!!!” is not enough;
you must also bang the skull! And then there’s side B, which has two covers;
Nuclear Assault’s “Hang the Pope”, which is very short song… but I am not a fan
of this band, so it is nothing especially exciting for me; but the title of the
song is great hehe! And the second cover is Nihilist’s “Revel in
Flesh”!!!!!!!!! Aaaarrrghhhh, and that’s way better, as this is a classic song
for me, not as useless as Nuclear Assault’s. And I don’t care if somebody will
say that this choice of a cover is too predictable and obvious; first of all
Verminous’ music doesn’t sound typical Swedish in my opinion and secondly I
would rather listen to a killer cover of a song, which I also worship and love
rather than an interesting, but forgettable cover of a song, which I don’t like
of a band, which I don’t care about at all. “Revel in Flesh” has been recorded
very well and is a nice finish of the whole EP. All in all, I love “The Curse
of the Antichrist”; to be a perfect single I would probably desire to have here
two Verminous songs plus this Nihilist cover, but well… who cares, it is fine
anyway!
Final rate: 80/100
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