Bloodtomb - The Cavernous Ritual Temple

BLOODTOMB - The Cavernous Ritual Temple (FALLEN TEMPLE - CD 2020)

Here comes Bloodtomb from The Netherlands with their debut album "The Cavernous Ritual Temple", released by Fallen Temple. What can you expect from it? Well, definitely everything what would be opposite to a good sounding, melodic and nice music. Bloodtomb's shit is ugly, primitive and noisy death / black metal. The general feeling of the music and its sound are like taken straight from the old Beherit or Blasphemy recordings, maybe in a bit more death metal style... but that should give you a clue what to expect. 

Musical aspects are of simplistic, harsh and extremely brutal, often fast, disturbing death / black metal, which knows nothing about mercy. This noise breeds chaos, destruction and mayhem. And there's absolutely nothing pleasant about it. Bloodtomb doesn't even try to make your life easier and you can be sure that this music will have very limited circle of listeners. Especially that the production is also properly rough. Some of you may know that personally I often get bored by that sort of bands and only very few can really impress and interest me. Too often such music sounds just like a mindless ejaculation of noisy guitar butchery or whatever. Noise, to be more precise. In case of Bloodtomb it isn’t that bad, really. Some of these songs or at least some riffs are really damn good, like "Black Blood Ritual", which definitely is my favourite track here. It's slower, riffs are a bit more memorable, but it's still really vicious and obscure. But such "Skull Tower" is also cool with its fast, one dimensional primitive onslaught. Sooooo.... "The Cavernous Ritual Temple" is not a terrific album, but it surely is good enough to give it an occasional spin which will draw you into the maelstrom of chaos and evil. 

Standout track: "Black Blood Ritual", “Blood of Eratication” 

Verdict: 65/100