Album quality and amount of snare ping have a linear relationship.
Current 2024 AOTY: Vitriol - Suffer and Become
Current 2024 SOTY: Necrot - Drill the Skull
Brutal death standouts (ranked):
Vitriol - Suffer and Become
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe
Axiomatic Dematerialization - Absolute Elimination of Existence
Album quality and amount of snare ping have a linear relationship.
Current 2024 AOTY: Vitriol - Suffer and Become
Current 2024 SOTY: Necrot - Drill the Skull
Brutal death standouts (ranked):
Vitriol - Suffer and Become
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe
Axiomatic Dematerialization - Absolute Elimination of Existence
Talk about a magnum opus. Hideous Divinity have catapulted themselves from the ranks of royalty into the pantheon of brutal death metal. Atmosphere, pacing, songwriting, everything here is some of the best the genre has to offer. A stunner.
This is a solid debut that is a showcase of potential above all else. Nothing here wowed me, but I would bet money that their next record is going to make waves. I agree with Bart that the middle third of the project is the strongest stretch.
Their first album was good enough. Now they've brought in Matt Kilner (sole contributor to last year's incredible Nithing record) on drums and the results speak for themselves. This is some of the most vicious brutal death in recent memory (and for 45 minutes!).
