The Basque Doctrine: Voracity Is My Name
That’s
pretty obvious some of my record purchases are the result of a coincidence. The
case of Carnivorous Voracity isn’t an exception here and I found this name in
label catalogue. Nothing extraordinary, don’t you think? So, fast listen on
band’s bandcamp site and after “Secularize” track I knew “The Impious Doctrine”
belonged to my must-have list. To write what is all about, stop at the genre. Brutal
death metal. Ha, everything is clear in that matter. Everything? Just look on
general number of such bands. As Encyclopaedia Metallum informs, there are over
three thousand crews in whole world. Probably I don’t know even ten percentages
of their names, but believe me, these mad Spaniards are of the better kind. Their
debut stuff simply mangled me.
From
production standpoint: with a help of Pedro J. Monje, the band did a perfect
job for such a musical form. The album got organic natural sound and each
element can be easily heard and deciphered. As for music itself, it is
maintained in brutal (technical) death metal standards, however the most
important is to have even slight piece of individuality as well as show any creativity
dimension to overcome such dangerous dullness. Even if the album clocks in 36
minutes, musicians got along with aforementioned musical traps efficiently. What’s
more, they did it in a really splendid and devastating way. Avoiding putting
many useless movie samples, these 36 minutes of total senses annihilation are
what I was looking for: it just takes my breath away. As the riffs are the
foundation, the guitarists deliver killing rugged tremolo riffs and fascinating
thing is they are served in a really catchy way in most cases. Despite of
indescribable dynamic broken structures, some parts can be crooned either with
the best examples in “Anatomic Human Degradation” or “Anthropophagus
Infanticide”, which is my favourite one I guess. I have an impression that Xabat
and Turbine just take the instrument and play it freely, simple as that, not
proving how fucking great musicians they are, but using skills and effective
technique in a proper way. So not only fast frantic paces, but slowdowns that
nail me to the ground, it works smoothly making the running album time with no yawn
signs. For sure song called “Grotesque Expiation of Dissolute Lambs” should be
mentioned as it contains of rather rare for such a genre, but absolutely
perfect parts of guitars starting off at circa 2:10.
The rhythm
section is smashing. What is interesting, bass lines have been performed by
producer himself, Pedro. And you know what? They sound brilliant! And Edgar performance
is a rather low bow to the old classical drummers and I found in his playing
many patents known from “Effigy of the Forgotten”. This ruthless duo supports
the guitar machinery effectively just like midfielder’s line does with Aritz
Aduriz on San Mamés. Well, I can’t skip the vocalist, Seyerot, who follows the
standard way of singing. Of course he does, from ultra low guttural vomits to
shrieks and squeals, the way it’d be executed. In few tracks he is supported by
other guys, there are also clean vocal lines (or just taken from any movie, I’m
not sure about it) in “Epiphanies of Perverse Egocentrism” and I treat it as a really
good idea. Ah, one more thing concerning the longest “Transferable Malignity”
which ends the album. Namely it seems it’s a kind of bonus track because of
different sound realization (guitar layers put a bit in the background at the
expense of rhythm section), yet I couldn’t find such an information anywhere.
For sure this song is a bestial stuff and the only one with a guitar lead.
Brutal
death metal. Yes, “The Impious Doctrine” is seriously brutal and Amputated Vein
label sheet didn’t lie about it. But who cares about label descriptions, right?
I didn’t expect inventing the wheel because it’s impossible. But these
Spaniards offers talent and creativeness to bring with the debut just a great music
worthy many extreme spins. On purpose I did not give you any other such rotten
outfits, but the natural and best place for Carnivorous Voracity to exist is
the US death big family and although Spaniards didn’t dethrone my old-time
killers, yet they took my soul by storm and ate my senses voraciously with no
mercy. Well, the band’s name obliges, doesn’t it?
90/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in July, 2016)
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