Maggot Crown, the joint venture between Jared Moran & Justin Vølus release their fourth creation with ‘Apparition of Faces’.
For those who don’t know anything about the band: Maggot Crown play a torrid blend of searing face-melting Death/Grind with doom-ish influences and vocals ranging from deep guttural growls to psychotic shrieking scream akin Black Metal insanity. Musically: bands as Morbid Angel, Immolation, Impetuous Ritual and more of those warmongering bands who rely heavily on a dark brood atmosphere come to mind.
The production on ‘Apparition Of Faces ‘ is a swampy quagmire of sluggish guitars, cascading hammering drums that hold everything together, and floaty ethereal lead guitars that add depth and momentum. A vile conjuring evil voice spews out atrocities. The music, however, is still firmly rooted in Death Metal and the acoustic whirlwind of chaos is guided in the right directions. If the tracks were even longer, the weight and impact of the music would be even more striking. But the album’s clever editing makes everything feel coherent.
For 36 minutes long the listener is treated to brutal yet well-crafted metal of death and completely immersed in a vortex of darkness.
This album almost slipped through our fingers here. It gets a well-deserve maximum score from me and I’m already looking forward to the next album.
Check it out.
