REVENGE – VIOLATION.STRIFE.ABOMINATE (Season of Mist Underground Activists)

With the pathetic and meek human race not so much at a crossroads as hurtling wilfully over the edge of a cliff, grateful to their tyrannical masters for the roadmap provided to said landmark, Revenge returns insatiably with hideous seventh full-length, ‘Violation.Strife.Abominate’, unleashing a dozen rabid renunciations of widespread subservience and ignorance. The jarring juxtaposition of chaotic carnage and devilish, delirious, murderous, mayhemic melody presented on this punishing record will appeal only to the most dedicated devotees to musical extremity.

Skin-flaying, bone-stripping, vomitous auditory assaults are delivered ravenously with precision and indignation, the diminishing boundaries between man, beast and machine poignantly blurred amidst the rubble as from the wasteland of India 2.0 Revenge rightfully spew hate-filled vitriolic judgement upon the knee-bent, asses-proffered masses slavishly sucking on the schlong of authority.

Wild, frenzied fretwork accompanies trademark barbaric, strangulated, crushed-larynx squeals and growls, as razorblade riffs and pummelling percussion contemptuously level all within range. So devastatingly uncompromising and decisive is ‘Violation.Strife.Abominate’ in its bloody-minded onslaught that it perfectly encapsulates and mirrors the utter madness, insanity and hopelessness of the captured, capitulated modern world.

As an anti-human agenda is spread effortlessly and universally without opposition or pushback, ‘Violation.Strife.Abominate’ is a bitter rejection of the new world order wet dream of snowflake, useful idiot work warriors worldwide, a steel-capped, hostility-laced boot to the snouts of the swine swilling selfishly, subordinately at the trough of the enslaver.

Although Revenge are pioneers and innovators of this bestial warmongering bastardisation chaos black metal sound they have made their own, within the context of their own distinctive discography, ‘Violation.Strife.Abominate’ is a militant manifesto against feeble existence that thankfully refuses to break new ground but is instead a natural and logical continuation musically and ideologically from its predecessors, in particular ‘Behold.Total.Rejection’ and ‘Strike.Smother.Dehumanize’.

Evilometer: 666/666