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DISIMPERIUM
Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars

Sentient Ruin Laboratories (2023)
Rating: 8.5/10

Bereft of subtlety, Portland, Oregon-based death metallers Disimperium spits out its debut full-length outing as if it were a discarded chunk of gristle. Such an opus comes thick, fast and aggressive with combinations of cavernous noise and flickers of grindcore madness.

Forget the alarm clock and let this 32 minute assault be your early morning wake-up call. Nine tracks, only one over four minutes, and a sound that literally lays waste to your neighbourhood as ‘Fortess Of Sulfuric Ritual’ comes hammering like some uncontrollable war machine coughing rust and puking bullets. It’s a cacophony suited solely for total annihilation. A screaming missile, a flattening tank, or maybe the rake of gunfire, just choose your weapon and become one with the gnashing riffs while all commands to the trenches are bellowed in chesty fashion.

‘Manifested Primordial Torment’ is next up where the machine gun fire of the percussion streaks through walls and takes down the opposition as a driving bass clanks. The combination of black-death and grind alongside old school death metal results in an utterly furious torrent that barely stops for a lunch break. Grinding pistons, chugging cogs, rattling bones and spouts of scorching flame, this is a record that just waits for the drums to pick up a gear before homing in on its intended target before wiping out the entire horizon.

‘I, Servitor Of Naught’, ‘Sepulchral Mind Prison’ and my favourite ‘Conclave Desecrated’ are jack hammers to the skull; hostile attacks created as dense walls of intoxicating smog that become impenetrable swirls of vaporous horror. Forget suspense or any kind of slow building drama, Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars is hateful, seething and monstrous from the first billowing chords, and from such chaos there is no escape. Thanks for the wounds guys!.

Neil Arnold

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