After unleashing a couple of vicious tracks, Greek death/black metal band Burial Hordes premiere a brand new one which is tempered with black metal influences and atmospheric parts, but is arguably just as fearsome and ruthless. You can find the No Clean Singing premiere of that song AT THIS LINK. Excerpt –
“the entire experience is calamitous in different and dynamic ways, both viscerally furious and frighteningly atmospheric, and altogether gripping”
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– “Keep an eye on this one, it has some AOTY potential” – The Killchain (UK)
Burial Hordes (Greece) – Ruins (Blackened Death Metal)
Genre – Blackened Death Metal
Release Date – June 9th, 2023
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of – Decipher, Bølzer, Incantation, Dead Congregation, Grave Miasma, Deathspell Omega, Suffering Hour, Enshadowed
Emerging after a gap of five years, Greece’s best kept secret Burial Hordes bring forth an outstanding slab of blackened death metal that harnesses both chaos and atmosphere in equal parts. A fearsome album right off the bat, it sees the band slipping into different dimensions only to come back with renewed anger. There is a sense of barely restrained outrage that is all too palpable in the forceful delivery but is almost invariably mitigated by dissonant atmospheric passages, occasionally even bearing shades of melancholy. Ruins is a beautifully balanced album with intuitive songwriting that never feels abrupt, and with their skillful, inextricable blend of black and death metal influences, they convey a wider range of emotions for an album this intense. It’s easily one of the best albums of late in this blackened death metal spectrum.
Line up –
T.K. (Dead Congregation) – Guitars, Bass
D.D. (Enshadowed, Anticreation) – Guitars, Bass
D.T. (ex-Ravencult) – Vocals/Lyrics
Eugene Ryabchenko (Fleshgod Apocalypse) – Session Drums
Artwork by Khaos Diktator Design
Track list –
1. In the Midst of a Vast Solitude
2. Insubstantial
3. Perish view
4. A Wandering Stream of Wind
5. Infinite Sea of Nothingness
6. Isotropic Eradication
7. Purgation
8. …To the Threshold of Silence