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REPUGNATORY
Eterna Abominación

Self-released (2022)
Rating: 7.5/10

It’s time to don that rugged leather jacket and bullet belt and crack open a few beers as Chilean black thrashers Repugnatory lays waste to your living room with album number four.

Of course I knew what was coming, and that’s why I nailed planks of wood across the windows to protect the glass and stockpiled extra food, because this was always going to be a toxic assault. Snappy vocals sneers, speedy scorched guitar work, tight, whiplash percussion and a bass that strikes like a whip across the back.

Eterna Abominación features eight tracks, under half-an-hour of music, with every lethal composition delivered like a hailstorm that’ll leave your walls coated in a peculiar black powder while your ears and nostrils are left to smoulder.

Tracks like ‘Ritual’, ‘Viendo el cielo caer’ and ‘Conteplaras el horror’ all rattle around the cranium like a bowl of nuts n’ bolts. It’s fast, noisy and overtly satanic as ‘Dios muerto’ propels itself towards your throat, tears out your jugular and leaves your tongue flapping around your mouth like a trapdoor caught in a blizzard.

Obviously you get wafts of old Destruction, Kreator and Sodom mixed with Venom and Bathory, but as with a lot of South American acts there’s always that ever-present organic feel, as if they’ve marvelled some previously unheard horror but are keen to keep it a secret for aeons.

There’s nary a slow song on offer. ‘Espanto del más allá’ shakes and quakes violently, ‘Viendo el cielo caer’ is another sniping, seething escapade, while the closing title track just pukes out enough black smoke to have you reaching for the gas mask.

Fetid, fusty and drenched in fiery evil, Repugnatory is the sort of band that appeals to those regressive souls not only stuck in first wave black metal designs, but their own cellar, existing with the rats and the stench of piss and warm beer.

Neil Arnold

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