Sangus Legio album review: “Vengeful Brutality” (May 2013)
Sangus Legio’s 2013 demo “Vengeful Brutality” is so heavy
that it verges on total cacophony. Listeners craving something hectic and
brutal will not be disappointed. This album is a disorienting trip in to the
filthy, thick, rippled guts of misanthropic violence. That is, the tracks
deliver what the title promises.
Sangus Legio’s three-track blackened thrash demo reminds
listeners of throwing temper tantrums as an angry, small child. Only this time
with blast beats and brutal shredding, punching bass lines, and badass guitar
solos backing them. The crushing brutality of this black metal crust puts
listeners in to a world of frustrated excitement that makes them want to kick
and punch their way out of it and climb over piles of cadavers on our way into
battle…against everything.
Though the recording quality is neither clear nor
polished, this feature works in favor of band’s sound. The heavy, gory, filth
on “Vengeful Brutality” is muddy and distorted, calling back to earlier days of
brutal music, which makes sense when considering that the line up consists in
members of Paindriver, Haxen, Sin of Angels, Nachzehrer, and I, Destroyer. The
recording of “Vengeful Brutality” makes for a brutality of raw desolation.
The guitars of Barbarian
and Vamacara, play distorted, loud, brutal riffs and solos—shredding over the
splashy symbols and unrelentingly heavy beats of drummer Executioner. The bass
lines of Czarnobòg carry the
bands distorted mayhem in to some comprehensible form, focusing the total
brutality in to a finely pointed weapon of destruction. Sangus Legio’s vocals
truly crystallize the bands almost playfully brutal style. Vocalist Vovk’s
throaty screaming and gutturals reflect a tradition of black metal, grindcore,
and thrash that, if it were ever dead, kicked it’s way out of the coffin for
this demo.
Over all this demo is consistently heavy, disgusting, and
vengeful. Some might, however find it too short to get around to acting out the
repressed misanthropic squalor advocated in the short, three-track demo.
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