Triumvir Foul - Urine of Abomination

I had seen just a little bit of hype among the online metal community surrounding this album and when I saw on Bandcamp that it had been released and that it was just a quick, 4-song EP at under 17 minutes, I figured I may as well check it out to see what all the hype was about. After having done so, I can say I can see why some might have been excited for this, but aside from the harsh noise that opens the first song and provides interlude between tracks, there really isn’t much to this album stylistically or even compositionally to make it an exciting release, yet still I quite enjoy it. It’s a quarter of an hour of continuous, cavernous, brutal blackened death metal focused more on thickness of the wall of sound it creates than speed (with the rhythm of the guitars and the low, demonic howls being the primary focus in the mix), and its brevity is definitely to its benefit because I have a hard time imagining this lasting the stretch of an LP the way it does here. What Triumvir Foul does well is approach this album honestly and consciously and with a few subtle twists and turns along the way, nothing shocking or all too ambitious, and it makes for a well-tempered offering of sardonic death metal with enough to maintain attention because its creators clearly kept their attention all throughout and didn’t just coast through any part of it. Indeed, the band are able to keep their foot on the gas for the entire 16-and-a-half minutes they play, which I would have some doubts about their ability to do so for a 30-40-minute full-length, but this is a good length for them, nice and to the point, packed densely enough with musical ideas, not too drawn-out or diluted. It’s a well-portioned, well-packaged serving of dirty, harsh death metal to that’s really more intended to conjure a dismal, hellish atmosphere than anything else, and that it does well.
bask in the filth for a minute/10

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