“Inhale”, proclaims the first track of this collection of violent outbursts from Chile’s Perversor. What you’re inhaling here is the musical equivalent of a plague of locusts. If “Inhale” was associated with a colour, it would be black or grey. The black clouds take over as the shadows are consumed. It could cause suffocation but this stench-filled, odorous filth is actually invigorating. I’m loving it. Fast, furious and thrashy, there’s no escape from the war, in which Perversor engage us. Drums hammer and the sonic boom is constant. “Fast, faster and harder” seems to be all that Perversor know. The vocals have an echo but there’s no subtlety, just menace and violence. After “Bestial Path”, the crashing thunder resumes on “Awakening of the Ancient Ones”, not that it ever went away. Blasting drums accompany the hangman riff but it just gets faster and faster and more belligerent. There’s not a scrap of mercy, but amid the thunder the guitar line twists and turns. These guys don’t waste time at any stage. They pursue their deathly bludgeoning as if by slowing down, they’d miss out on drinking time. Perversor have evidently decided that short, sharp shocks are what we need, and contain each of these nine outbursts of stormy violence to around the three minute mark. There’s simply no nonsense. “Old Temples of Death” even had a punkish element, I thought, to go with that deep riff and frenetic drumming. The explosion finishes with “Metal Massacre”, another tearaway track of adrenaline-fuelled violence.
Compromise simply isn’t an option. “Anticosmocratur” combines death metal with black metal and goes for the jugular in a way that I am used to from listening to Polish bands. This time it’s South American brutality and aggression that are in abundance. I really liked this album’s raw energy and lack of any pretension. It’s got real flow and plenty of balls.
(8.5/10 Andrew Doherty)
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