There is a review of Unclean rituals over at metal sucks, click the link to read.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/01/28/freeloader-hesper-payne%e2%80%99s-unclean-rituals/
and find below a transcriptoin of Etan Rosenblooms review of Contaigeon from Decibel magazine.
It’s apt that Death at the Gates of Delirium is the first release on digital-only, pay-what-you-wish “un-label” Works of Ein. Encasing music in physical form would imply that it’s of this world. English death metal band Contaigeon’s debut surely isn’t. Witness the band’s discordant riff arcs, caked in noisome corpse rot, or Archeon’s unearthly grotesque growl, pitched almost lower than the band’s downtuned guitars. Even the band’s mis-spelled name and final track title (“Curroption”) suggest apathy towards the way humans communicate.
Contaigeon have no trouble communicating. Lyrically, the band augurs some pretty terrible stuff about humanity’s end-times, but there is little of the admonishing rage of much eschatology-obsessed death metal. They take no special pride in witnessing the earth’s demise on “The Day the Earth Stood Dead,” nor do they pledge any special fealty to the terrible protagonist of “Plague Lord” (“Rising from the stinking pit / Pestilential majesty / Crusted bile is his crown”). Contaigeon are mere observers to all the destruction and flesh-rending, which makes their pronouncements all the more horrific. They’ve seen the bleakness of our future, and there’s fuck all we can do about it.
The songwriting’s top-notch and the playing seeps sloppy soul. And yet Death at the Gates of Delirium’s greatest asset is some of the sickest guitar tone since the glory days of Incantation. Instruments bleed at the edges, Archeon and Rahab’s haunted six strings fusing with Verminion’s “four string funary (sic) dirges” into one fuzzed-out, scouring earfuck. No modern over-compression here – every section of the frequency spectrum sounds equally tarnished, equally rotten. “Those in the soil that hunger,” Archeon groans in “Those In the Soil,” “Those in the dark that scream…Can you feel them / Burrowing beneath your feet?” Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. We feel this album. 8/10
January 30, 2011
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