Chilean black/death horde Wrathprayer’s debut full length,
which dropped on Nuclear War Now! a couple of weeks ago, is one that I have
been waiting for since first hearing some of their demo material a year or two
ago.
“The Sun of Moloch” is a combination of Teitanblood darkness
and Portal-esque writhing with some weird ambience, eerie sampling and dense
production values. The vocals are sort of pushed back, sounding as if the eerie
echoing howls are coming from a sealed tomb. The guitar work is ugly, abrasive
and muddy, sticking to a pretty standard bestial template, occasionally
changing it up with some well placed death metal “grooves” (for lack of a better
word). The song writing isn’t exactly anything new but the tracks are all
well-written and serve the purpose of crushing your skull whilst enveloping you
in the total darkness of a long forgotten and sealed tomb.
Throughout the 40 minute run time of this record, I did not
once find myself bored and on the first listen my jaw simply dropped. With “The
Sun of Moloch”, Wrathprayer has given us another strong contender for “album of
the year” in 2012. I really cannot fault this album in any way and it’s definitely
everything I had expected from this Chilean horde.
5/5
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