INVINCIBLE FORCE
Satan Rebellion Metal
Dark Descent (2015)
Rating: 8.5/10
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It’s time to lock the doors once again and be sure to secure the cellar too, because Chile’s underground metal scene has just been given more firepower in the form of Invincible Force.
These guys formed in 2007 and Satan Rebellion Metal is their first hoof mark upon the church of God, which is sure to be an indelible one. The band has released a handful of demos and was involved in a couple of split projects in 2011, but they’ve taken some time out to create this lump of blasphemic metal.
The band features the subtly named Dead Goat on guitar, who forms a twin axe attack with Enzodomizer. The pair are joined by drummer Cristobal and vocalist / bassist Bato, who joined in 2011. Often with Chilean extreme metal you know what you’re in for, and that applies with Invincible Force; a blackened dose of unhealthy, unholy thrash with death metal tinges that bring to mind the legendary Possessed and the likes.
We get those cavernous vocal echoes and a nifty slick mix of deep, raging riffs combined with suspenseful slower segments just to add to the Christ-hating atmosphere. When those devilish drums and blackened bass are added to the mix, we hear the band unleash a series of unkempt assaults which, as a matter of fact, sound more controlled than a number of South American bands I’ve heard over the years.
So, instead of being an indecipherable lump of smouldering flesh, we get a slightly tighter unit responsible for the likes of the raging ‘Necromance’ and black-thrash bludgeoning ‘Onwards To War’, which is actually quite contemporary by design instead of existing as an unrelenting plague of indiscernible chaos.
Of course, there will never be anything remotely original about this stuff, but it never sets out to be. Instead, these type of South American bands don themselves with chains, bullet-belts and battle jackets dotted with old Slayer, Venom, Bathory, Nifelheim, Sodom et al patches and base the sounds in their garage around such giants. The result is often a vile marrying of deep, almost obscure hidden traditional metal values put into a furnace and then crafted into something flame-grilled and thrash-mangled to the point of tracks such as ‘Bringers Of Armageddon’; a super-fast outburst that only stops for breath to allow the guitar to catch up with the drum before the words are once again spat out with such hostility that I’m once again transported to the first time I heard Slayer and shit myself.
Okay, so the effects of Invincible Force are not as potent, but such evil sounds still remind us that this type of old school metal exists, and when we hear it we can only jump for joy before diving into the fire.
Neil Arnold
