Australian Death/ Black outfit Vahrzaw release their fourth full-length album.
To label Vahrzaw Death/Black metal you’d be right but also wrong. Very wrong. The opening riff to Vultures is a combination of pure Teutonic/death thrash metal with some excellent METAL solos to raise the hair on your neck! The pure metal they bring to Waiting with the Wolves is mighty headbanging glory along with some neck-snapping time changes and glorious tight riffing.
The Trembling Voices of Conquered Men is a massive album, and the level of musicianship is mind-boggling. Every track fresh and inspired, listening to Death of An Unknown Architect and its journey through the realms of extreme music to its acoustic coda pushes the level of musicianship to new heights and heaviness. There isn’t a style on this album that isn’t conquered with energy and ferociousness. It is also excellently recorded so you can hear all those freaking amazing riffs and excellent drumming.
The Pessimist and its military-like precision is the chaotic insanely fast epic of the album even at nine minutes plus it certainly doesn’t feel like it, that middle section commands you to get involved with its mid-tempo ferocity and Van Dooms nihilistic vocals.
Not a moment is wasted of its entire 34-minute run time. It’s short sharp and so aggressively heavy that it rises above its peers in a master class of technical black/death metal that offers so much more. Memorable and unmissable.
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Release Year: 2021
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Category: Album
Country: Australia
Reviewed by Sparky
