There has been a fair bit of anticipation for the debut album from French death metallers Darkall Slaves ever since their demo of 2008 but you can only imagine that hunger will take on a new intense greed as the single Abysses of Seclusion begins to ravage the world. The two track release is a brutal and exhausting piece of savagery brought with a craft and intensity which verges on suffocation but ultimately ignites the passions, well if extreme metal though that term short changes the creative barbarity unleashed, is your poison. If not it is a release to let fear dictate that you stay away.
Formed in 2005, the band despite plenty of line-up changes across the years have steadily and constantly drawn and earned strong responses and attention, through their previously mentioned self-released EP and live performances which has seen them play numerous festivals such as Germany’s Death Feast, Belgium’s Mass Deathstruction, Holland’s Neurotic Deathfest (official after-party) and Houten Deathfest, as well as share stages with the likes of Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm, God Dethroned, Hate, Lividity, Sinister, and Vital Remains. Recently the band, as well as undergoing another change of personal which features members past and present of Unsu, Amputated Repugnance and Visceral Carnage and the quintet now driven by two vocalists, signed with Kaotoxin Records. Working intensely on their debut album the band then recorded a preproduction demo which so impressed the label that they decided to release it as a single, and as the tracks churn over and devour the senses it is easy to see why.
Opening with an intro which would grace any psychotically spawned tale the first track proper, Mindless Damnation, spews out 
gutturally drenched vocal squalls and rabid riffs whilst the drums lance and parade the ears on their rhythmic spikes. It is a tsunami of energy and venomous intensity yet there is a clarity and union of individual voices from guitar, bass and drums which is mesmeric in its beauty and monstrous in its menace and destructive hunger. Lyrically, well who knows, the vocals a maelstrom of intestinal ruptures and porcine squeals, and thoroughly compelling alongside the insatiable predatory sounds.
The title track as expected is equally uncompromising and vocally grasping. As with its companion the track is sadistic and threatening to the senses and emotions, its primal lurching through the ear the prelude to a bordering on cruel seduction bred by bloodlust seeded riffing and inhumane rhythmic confrontation. Yet there is always a vicious groove whether slight or fully open which acts as a potent temptation to ensure capitulation.
The Tsun Tsun Productions produced Abysses of Seclusion is a masterful piece of skilled violence disguised as death metal and one suspects the trigger for a ravenous greed towards the forthcoming full length from the band.
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8.5/10
RingMaster 04/06/2013
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