Album Review: Martyrdoom – As Torment Prevails (Memento Mori)

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odour of vintage death metal, on October 23rd, Memento Mori present Martyrdoom’s highly anticipated second album, As Torment Prevails.

If it tastes like death metal, smells like death metal, and stings like death metal, chances are that you’re listening to death metal. Martyrdoom fall into all these categories and then some. As Torment Falls is death metal through and through, focused on the traditional side of things, but not afraid to wander into blacker territories.

It’s a simple thing, garish and grim, filled with riffs that tear through flesh, hooks that stretch the muscles to the point they rip apart, percussion that grinds the bones into dust, and vocals that pour venom over the devastated remains. Death metal fans will eagerly enjoy being punished by Martyrdoom, that much is for sure.

However, just pointing out that they do death metal extremely well, isn’t fair to this band because their capabilities put them on a higher echelon of extreme noise. Like the band they choose to cover at the end of the album, Martyrdoom are on top form and throwing their everything into making this the most compelling death metal can sound in the modern times with the old-school slant it has.

It’s an album of hateful heaviness that calls to the monster inside. An album that demands your subjugation, but refuses to give any mercy. It is an album of death metal at its nastiest and heaviest apex. That should be more than enough to sell this to fans of the extreme.

Martyrdoom – As Torment Fails Track Listing:

1. Voidcreeper
2. 93
3. Katatonic Ascension of Cirrhosis
4. Purtenance
5. Shedding of the Soul
6. Torment
7. Festering Existence
8. Garden of Flesh
9. In the Grip of Winter (Autopsy Cover)

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