POISONOUS

Metalhit are doing the rounds at the moment, courting many a death metal band for a re-release, offering digi-pack edition of their early material, and this time it’s Brazil’s Poisonous whose music is apparently “a harrowing and brutal display of real death metal. No poseur trends here... just straight-forward, obliterating death metal that will crush you under its analog hammer of poseur-slaughtering justice!” Well, if by that they mean “old school” (forgive the use of the hopefully-soon-to-be-deceased cliché), then that they are. Poisonous clearly see technicality as a redundant instrument in the crafting of such savagery and so any attempt to catch even the merest glimpse of dexterity is futile. This filthy discharge is a vehement salmagundi, a barrage of brutal riffs, machine-gun drumming, and mildly-reverberated guttural grunts spawned from the very nutsack of the Son of Perdition himself. There’s no atmosphere as such, save for the horror stitched deeply into the flesh of each track, nor is there room to breathe as the album’s relentless nature is as suffocating as it is barbarous. Suffice it to say that there’s also little in the way of originality either, yet in having ploughed straight in for the gruesome, the sinister, and the utterly repugnant, Poisonous care not a jot. And for all its relentless and savage depravity, Poisonous do repeat themselves in the structures, the dynamics, and the technically-subdued riffs quite a bit and so there is little that is memorable or distinct from that canon of “old school” artists and albums to which Poisonous have devoted their services. Still, as a brutal “old school” (yes, I’m bored of quotation marks too) death metal album, it’s a pretty good homage and it’s good to see a band delivering it in such high quality as well as a label devoted to making underground metal more readily available in the digital era (and the CD digi-pack with artwork by Mark Riddick looks astounding) and offering it at such incredible prices.

LABEL:

FORMAT:

Metalhit

Album

PERDITION'S DEN

Review by Jason Guest

RUNNING TIME:

43:08

RELEASE DATE:

17th July 2012

TRACK LISTING

1) Subterranean Rules
2) Worthless Christ
3) Creeping Impurity
4) Demons
5) Blasphemy Arises from the Knowledge
6) Perdition's Den
7) Under the Blessing of Death
8) From the Infernal Rift
9) Black Clouds and Fever
10) Horror Instinct
11) Poisonous; 12) The Black Vomit

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:

Brazil

"This filthy discharge is a vehement salmagundi, a barrage of brutal riffs, machine-gun drumming, and mildly-reverberated guttural grunts spawned from the very nutsack of the Son of Perdition himself..."