Bloodrust – At Glory’s End

From the bleak southern islands that bear the name Falklands returns Death Metal solo project Bloodrust and a third studio album entitled ‘At Glory’s End’. Sporting grim, evocative artwork, the best yet to adorn a Bloodrust album, this album will be released in April on CD through Archaic Sounds. I described the last Bloodrust album, ‘A Legacy of Vengeance’ as a workmanlike, solid Death Metal album. ‘At Glory’s End’ has a far more chaotic feeling to it. Rather than methodical and structured, this new opus has a chaotic, rampaging feeling to it; unsurprising with an opening track entitled ‘War Machine’. Yes, once more Bloodrust focuses on all things war like and military and shows off a great breadth of technical guitar leads, thundering drumming and a snarling bass line or two, all topped off with a vocal style that growls ominously but with a serpentine, rasping quality that lends itself well to the overall sound. ‘At Glory’s End’ is certainly no shrinking violet; a rapid and violent expression of man and machine in perfect killing harmony told through the lens of brutal riffs, savage percussion and feral vocal work. Easily the most complete and harrowing album to date from Bloodrust and one that definitely moves this project out of the workmanlike sphere and into loftier heights of carnage strewn yet technically adept Death Metal.