One look at the album cover, logo and various iconographies this band uses and you are thrust into the realms of dark and doomy rancid satanic death metal. The typical satanic intro fits perfectly for “The Disgrace Of God” as the bass on this album is colossal without blurring into a muddy splurge. There are lots of hints of slower Boltthrower material here as well as pulverising acts like Incantation and Immolation as everything is generally slowed to a crushing crawl with the odd burst of blast thrown in.
The vocals are growled into a thick sludgy drawl straight from Satan’s arse hole. It is good to hear genuine death metal vocals that are truly evil and sinister as “Desecration Eternal” has some touches of debut album Obituary only much damn heavier. The album has a very oppressive sound with a claustrophobic atmosphere similar to Asphyx on their albums though the bass is considerably more intense. “Lies Of The Cross” is as heavy as death metal gets with enough double bass to set off an aftershock and followed by a bass guitar that will set off seismic detectors worldwide. I reckon if you placed you’re speakers face down onto the ground outside all manner of weird and wonderful creatures will gravitate towards it.
I would never say the band is covering new ground but with such an intense delivery of pulverising metal the band sounds fetidly fresh within the death metal scene today and it makes a change that they’re not from Scandinavia. The songs are very similar to each other which are fine by me in this style of death metal as I don’t expect a technical bombardment or some jazzed out bollocks just to make the musicians look good. Keep it simple; keep it heavy and keep it fucking brutal is the best motto in my opinion as “In The Shadows Of His Blasphemous Glory” does exactly that with monstrous power amongst the blasts and deluging bass. There isn’t really much else to add about this album except that if you want some brilliant underground and authentic death metal then do yourself a favour and check these Texan thugs out.
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