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VACUOUS DEPTHS
Corporal Humiliation

Blood Harvest / Chaos / Goat Throne (2022)
Rating: 8/10

Vacuous Depths are a solid and brutal Tampa, Florida-based trio that bulldozes your skull with this debut 30-minute affair. If you want death metal dripping with menace and throwing up constant barrages of eye-gouging riffage then this is the album for you.

I’m a sucker for catchy death metal and when opening track ‘Gold Crosses’ shifts into that twisted orgy of dark, rolling riffage I’m writhing in ecstasy. This is not an album that let’s up, everything about it is hefty and guttural; kudos then to drummer Dustin Rogers whose kit must have suffered a severe beating in the making of this impressive slab.

Every track – including a cover rendition of Sepultura’s ‘Troops Of Doom’ – is delivered in a filth-coated manner; evil, violent gnashing dynamics which suggest the guitars and bass are spewing a mix of thick saliva and ash.

Vocalist Austin Thomas has a choppy, dehydrated sort of style as the band lumbers through the bulging ‘Exteriorization’ which reeks of doomy nuances and features the best vocal work which comes across as a slurping, gore-soaked snarl. The title track is a colossal slab where again there’s that deep, dark churning nature to the instrumentation and those percussive thuds and slaps are guaranteed migraine fodder.

Corporal Humiliation is also littered with devastatingly fast passages; black gales of arctic rust and pallid torment whereby chaotic fumes smother the ears like soot-speckled gases. Check out the blitz of ‘Cycle Of Control’ for evidence of such harrowing haste.

It’s a brave person that can sit through such a whirlwind of grit, despair and molten fury because Vacuous Depths really do take great pleasure in humiliating its audience.

Neil Arnold

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