01/08/2023 16:30

Defy The Curse

Defy The Curse: debut album 'Horrors of Human Sacrifice' out soon

Defy the Curse presents you their debut album 'Horrors of Human Sacrifice'. Hammerheart Records will release the album on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats, with apparel. It features artwork by Rafal Wechterowicz from Too Many Skulls (Slayer, Ghost, Kreator) and it was recorded, mixed and mastered by Toneshed Studio (Dead Head, Inhume, Trouble).

Track listing:
1. Heading into the Realm of Torment
2. Existence Consumed
3. The Tower of Suffering
4. Endless Curse
5. Swarms
6. The Oppressor 
7. Horrors of Human Sacrifice
8. Eidolon of the Blind 
9. Desolate Void
10. Serpent Cult 
11. Panopticon

Former members of Collision, Cauterize, Inhume, The Guilt Parade, Mangled and Legion of the Damned reunited in 2016. All from well-known acts from the North Limburg region, they found each other in their "old love doesn't rust" for crust infested old school death metal.

The music is menacing and mauling right from the start, a vicious and viscerally compelling attack of pummeling double-kicks, skull-smacking snare strikes, swarming HM-2 guitar abrasion, and cold-hearted roars. Even when the music downshifts into a somewhat less maniacally ferocious experience, the gut-slugging bass, blaring chords, and raw howls still put a premium on pulse-pumping hostility.

The band's crust-punk influences show themselves too, in scampering beats and slashing riffage, though the sound is still crunchy and crushing. And the changes keep coming as the music slows and begins to drag the listener through a trough of skulls, creating sounds of blaring desolation and moaning misery, augmented by weird, wailing guitar tones high up in the range and by vocals that seem as tormented as they are enraged.

(source: Hammerheart Records)