Album Review: Revel in Flesh – The Hour Of The Avenger (War Anthem Records)

Carl Fisher 2 min read

The Deathkult rages on and the hour of the avenger draws near! After a succesful line–up change in the drum department and following the release of their “Relics Of The Deathkult” compilation in early 2018, Southern Germany based Revel in Flesh finally strike back with their 5th full-length album on their new label home War Anthem Records!

The Hour Of The Avenger basically steps in where the highly acclaimed successor “Emissary Of All Plagues” ended. Revel in Flesh evolved and refined their very own formula of Death Metal in a logical way: more EPIC, more MELODIC, more INTENSE but still sticking to their roots deep within the classical European styled Death Metal from the 90s era.

It will be released on December 6th 2019.

Let the blackened death consume you, Revel in Flesh are here to destroy with their brand new album, The Hour of the Avenger. Ten tracks and one cover designed to grip you by the head, starting twisting and turning until bones snap and flesh rips resulting in nothing but a gruesome and bloody hole for them to scream into.

Yes, this is a very heavy and a very aggressive release. One with old-school riffing and soloing, filth-covered vocals and percussion that has a bit of tinniness to it. it’s very familiar but not so much that it sounds like retread.

It’s a damn good album that delivers on all its promises of deathly heaviness, bleak blackness and furious intent. Tracks like My Trial, The Nihilistic Nothingness, Deathblow and Skull Sacrifice move at such an evil pace that the only thing to do is to head-bang as furiously as possible.

That it’s closed out with a pretty damn good cover of Motörhead’s Rock Out is just an added bonus.

Revel in Flesh – The Hour of the Avenger Full Track Listing:

1. The Hour Of The Avenger
2. My Trial
3. Blood Oath
4. The Nihilistic Nothingness
5. Sky Burial
6. Deathblow
7. Pervitin Speed Kill
8. The Wayfarer
9. Skull Sacrifice
10. The Nightbreed
11. Rock Out (Motörhead Cover)




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