Triumvir Foul – Urine of Abomination (Invictus Productions. 2019).

Triumvir Foul – Urine of Abomination (Invictus Productions. 2019).

The nearly minute long noise section that opens the first song on the latest EP by Death Metal masters Triumvir Foul is perfect. It is disorientating, unsettling, and terrifying, much like the evil Death Metal that follows. The opening song, I, is possessed by a sense of majesty and power with the first half or so of the song being largely dominated by a repeated more mid-paced riff that, when combined with the brilliant drumming, conjures images of the legions of Hell marching towards the surface to slay and butcher the living and rend their minds apart in reckless ecstasy. The second song, II, continues the Tartarean feel, but also has a killer riff that starts towards the end, around the two-minute mark, and is a more mid-paced affair yet possessed by some energy that just has you headbanging. Every song is imbued with a vile, rotten atmosphere of suffocating darkness that will infect you and have you slavering like a rabid dog in ecstasy as you feel your soul being torn from your body and dragged into the blackness of the abyss. This is none more so than during the riff that starts around the two-minute mark towards the end on IV, which during it’s slower start has a more ritualistic feel to it, before speeding up somewhat whilst the guitar solos screech hideously around before fading into harsh, Hellish noise that adds to the feeling that one has been condemned to the fires of Hades. The masterful combination of noise and Stygian Death Metal helps to perfectly evoke the menace of damnation and eternal Death that the full-length offerings by these maniacs manage to capture. The production suits the EP perfectly, with the guitars sounding raw and bloody, sawing into your mind and dismembering your sanity. No instrument is overpowering or too dominant, perfectly blending with each other to forge a weapon of unparalleled mental and spiritual annihilation that will please all old-school Death Metal fanatics. The CD version by Invictus Productions also contains the An Oath of Blood and Fire as bonus tracks, which is always welcome and helps satiate the hunger for further Death Metal darkness that one will have after the relatively short sixteen-and-a-half-minute EP draws to an end. 8.25/10.