Make Them Suffer come from Perth, Western Australia. If “Lord of Woe” is anything to go by, it must be a very dark place indeed. We’re promised “a darkened voyage of emotionally driven deathcore that skims the blackened waters of Death Metal and touches the shores of Black Metal”.
Indeed, it’s brutally blackened symphonic Metal, very much in the style of Vesania and to a point Dimmu Borgir, which greets us in the form of “Summoning Storms”. There’s a great break mid-way through, heralding a more Death-orientated ending. I really like the fusion of styles. The title track has Death vocals and guitar work but there’s a strong Black Metal air too, as if bats are fluttering around in the air. The drums trigger and in the meantime the maniacal keyboardist provides the symphonic air. All the time it’s as if we’re being driven into the ground. It drives on in a particularly nasty way. Then there are the breaks. Thanks to the symphonic element, it rises out of the harshness and into epic territory.
The screams to start “The Eternal Cold” are straight out of hell. This is the introduction to another mobile and engaging slab of darkness. Funereally and majestically, the vocalist grinds out “The world will end. I’ve turned my back”. This then leads into another symphonic Black Metal romp in “Affliction of the Dead”. It’s thunderously fast and dark. If music had a smell, this track would be of dead bodies. The 24 minute EP ends with “Weeping Wastelands”, another track of uncompromising heaviness. The music is as nihilistic as its lyrics but it drives forward as a brutally aggressive liturgy to Death and Chaos.
Make them Suffer succeed in getting their message across on “Lord of Woe”. It is a superb piece of brutal and atmospheric Metal.
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