Hailing from the oft-overlooked New England black / death underground, the four-pierce CRUENTATION possess an impressive resume of cult bands concurrent or prior: Witch Tomb / Impenitent Thief, Hirudenia, Cemetery Lights, Martyrvore, Ninnixu, and Embryonic Cryptopathia among many others. Those bands collectively defied the usual codified norms of the "underground" and struck deep into the heart of filth, whether it was strictly black metal, death metal, grindcore, or even thrash metal or noise; simply, the experience of righteous sonic defilement was paramount. And so it goes with CRUENTATION, who are now making their full-length debut after a trio of short-length releases.
Appropriately titled Damned Fallen Angels, CRUENTATION's debut album confronts and crushes with defiant zeal. This 10-track / 32-minute monolith soon becomes a soul-devouring abyss the second you press "play," existing somewhere between the most "deathened" black metal currently around or some of the most Satanic (and thus blackened) death metal birthed from the unholy legacy of Finland's Belial. Either way, the power-trio peel off one bestial pulse after another, moving with exceptionally tight execution and utterly devastating tone - no weak "raw" garage ones here - that thankfully all exudes a full-blooded physicality too often missing in these days of Bandcamp-only solo-projects.
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