Worship Paganism

Here's the Japanese Death lighters for the new long- stimulated album "Worship Paganism". Gorevent with consistence has come to the habitues in the beginning of 2010 as fullfilling the second deal from the official label, Macabre Mementos. As preparation, the concept is thereabouts a year realised from the news -- an enough time for 7 songs that become the mainstays of this CD. Never the less, the results from production and artwork are so complete regarding the context.

About the music, a tangible value is incontestible for Gorevent where the theme has been absurd from unconcern due the logic and the compositions are almost in the perfectness as good as the first full length Abnormal Exaggeration. A groove Death Metal is attempted to be explained with cultural and ferocity of touches to the heavyweight of brutality. Seemingly, influences from the big brothers, Vomit Remnants and the New York Internal Bleeding -felt absolute than other bands to be defended although the used keys and intuition are little different especially the slamming pattern. Almost all songs composed slowly from low setting of guitar plays whether drum sends hyperspeed or fastness -- a picking techniques dominate more with distorting breakdowns. Horrid impact is being on sense for some refractions where guttural deliverences from vocal-made blow to the invulnerable parts with cricketing in the end and the furrows turn dark, the realm. There are a few bands that bring the similarity for the kind that raising energy also wideness, and so potential to admit this band capability. Possibly, some thoughts for this CD are appeared particularly the rapidness and beat structures become austere but just listen some, such as: Clubbing to Death, Dead or Human Demise, definitely the flexibility will be concrete from the arrangement sketches. So demolishing and gigantic, the characteristic that they created more than the ordinary in the Death Metal majority.

Something about sound, Gorevent put more treble to the shape than the last albums. The raw effect is impressed from some forms but it's not poorness because the problem was in the mixing process as we know. Without imprecision, "Worship Paganism" has been a cotinuing album for contributing to the scene by Gorevent with the dimensional contents of inclination from the unmatched music. Come deep inside to endure the unchallenged insanity, bring this album as one of the powers vigorously.

Written for www.brutalism.com

I remember hearing Gorevent's debut Abnormal Exaggeration from a few years back and thinking to myself: great cover art, miserably mediocre Japanese slam death band almost entirely void of anything resembling creativity or good songwriting. In fact, I reviewed it on these very pages. The same uninspiring note patterns you've heard from a million other bands lacking direction, and played without any inspiration. Unless, of course, it is your diehard intention to simply mimic that which has come before with no impetus for the listener's attention span.

Yes, Gorevent have done it again. Or rather, HAVEN'T done it again, because Worship Paganism, while it too has a pretty damn sweet cover image, is an even worse effort than its predecessor. Gone are the very faint traces of fire that haunted the margins of that debut, and in its place are more super simple, guttural stomp rhythms that you, me, or anyone else reading this blog could compose within minutes of learning to palm mute. I have struggled to find even an ironic value in this effort...as I often do enjoy some very crude death metal for the sake of its primitive nature and good intentions. But with Gorevent, I'm simply at a loss. Hailing from a country of such creativity in all elements of media, including metal music, this band may prove the antithesis...as it becomes painful to even distinguish one track from the next on this recording.

Don't get me wrong, this band is 'brutal' as all fuck, but how hard is it to be heavy when you're just bombing along on the same chug chug chug chug while a drummer crashes along sounding as if he's half-asleep? Tracks like "Human Demise" and "Heartless Massacre" are highly saturated in carnal slamming rhythms, dense bass and Takashi's guttural vomit spew, but the riffs soon become repetitive in the worst way...as they were not interesting to begin with. Why not take this same, crushing, lo-fi, low end strategy and apply it to a few good hooks? Palm mute, palm mute, squeal, bust out super old school rhythm with like 3 notes, then break it up with more chugging. I doubt this band would require more than a single string on their instruments, or even a few frets, if not for the squeals and power chords that occasionally cut through.

Unless you've got a hunger for some deconstruction, or some stripping down of the same brutal death metal riffing that was done far better almost 20 years ago, I can't in good faith recommend anything but the cover artwork to Worship Paganism. If the intention here was to create one of the least distinctive, least compelling death metal albums in history, then Gorevent have earned themselves a staggering success... I'd hate to think there are bands out there in the world who make Devourment seem worthwhile in comparison, but sadly the day is coming.

-autothrall
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