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ASTRIFEROUS
Pulsations From The Black Orb

Me Saco un Ojo / Pulverised (2023)
Rating: 8/10

The vast death metal abyss opens its mighty, dripping jaws once again to reveal another colossus of a debut full-length album. Calling out to the cosmic realm, Costa Rican act Astriferous channels an otherworldly dynamic where unpredictable yet chunky riffs battle it out with cavernous vocal belches while the echoes of meaty bass and galactic percussive hammering cavort in similar unorthodox twists.

In a sense, Pulsations From The Black Orb is summed up by its garish cover art as a myriad of perverse and dense layers entwine with a maddening yet extra-terrestrial ghoulish glee. Whether it is the dense celestial pulverisations of ‘Teleport Haze’, the equally blanketing ‘Metasymbiosis’, or the bludgeoning ‘Symmetries That Should Not Be’, Astriferous maintains high levels of bedlam and brutality but enriched by its imagery of the otherworldly and overall gloominess, even with its more savage expressions.

There are shades of Demigod and chunks of Mortiferum, although I’d be inclined to also throw this miasmic excretion alongside the likes of Tomb Mold, just due to its torrent of riffs that surge like cold waves from a foaming sea. Obviously created from within some other dimension, these Costa Ricans have, liked many before, tapped into that ancient yet cosmic structure where only after numerous listens are its true layers unravelled and revealed.

Old school at its heart with nods towards a Finnish core, Pulsations From The Black Orb is as putrid as the previous releases but with an extra dash of the palatial and astronomical about its esoteric contours.

Neil Arnold

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