On their highly anticipated new album, Malthusian‘s fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting death metal. Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band’s new record opener, “Red, Waiting”. What follows is a flurry of murk and madness; blast beats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by Malthusian’s palpable fury is suffocating, each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre, a lighting of the pyre so to speak. Each of the records’s tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming – internal and external, a true end of everything.
The Summoning Bell will be released on August 8th via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available here.
