Labels: Denovali
Review by: Alex Deller
Here’s a nice n’ nasty slice of something savage from Denovali: a roiling, unpleasant churn of a band that can’t quite seem to decide whether it wants to be razor-gargling sludge, chunning Systral-style Teuton-core or godless black metal. Thankfully their multiple personality disorder is very much our gain, the nine tracks making up “Misanthrope(s)” representing a draining journey through the darker side of the human psyche, weighed down by gristly, mucous-encrusted riffs, ravening charnel howls and woebegone wrist-slitting atmospherics. If there’s a gripe to be had it’s that over the course of an album their dissonant, mid-paced sewer crawl might be a tad too gruelling for society’s weaklings, but if that’s the case you can be sure as hell that these folks won’t give a damn and would far rather see them perish than hold out a bony hand to help.