Country: Chile
Genre: Blackened death/grind
Full length: Malignancy
Format: Digital album
Label: Godz ov War Productions
Release date: October 18, 2024
A frequent criticism within the extreme metal community is that albums can be excessively polished. When an album exhibits an overproduced quality, it may result in a sound lacking diversity and failing to deliver the impact of earlier classics with darker, rawer elements.
This doesn’t apply to Onslaught Kommand’s "Malignancy" as listeners have noted its dismal, gloomy production, a harsh sound rather than a glossy, more accessible one and overdone guitar solos. It’s a common characteristic of numerous bands that as they evolve, they strive to evolve in every possible way. Onslaught Kommand chooses a different path, opting for a back-to-basics strategy to highlight the aspects of metal they value the most.
The band's objective seems to be to return the genre to an era characterized by ugliness and menace; not necessarily unprofessionalism but rather the minimalist direction it took from 1985 to ‘91. During that era, bands went to places that embodied the gritty essence of independent movies like "Evil Dead," "Zombie," "Tenebre," "City of the Living Dead," and, naturally, "Cannibal Holocaust." They composed music for a select few who perceived it as something distinctively root-and-branch.
As we know, the newer bands emerging had more in common with early death metal, crust sludge and grind than metal, and Onslaught Kommand wholeheartedly embrace those days, opting for high modicums of unsophistication and unrestricted shock value. The new bands emerging shared more similarities to early death metal, crust, sludge, and grind than metal. Onslaught Kommand embraces this era choosing a style characterized by unsophistication and unrestrained shock value.
The band openly acknowledges their macabre tendencies and doesn’t attempt to soften or whitewash the motivation that inspired the early DM bands drawing from noisecore and grindcore. Nor do they spend excessive time making their point in each song; the longest track here slightly exceeds three minutes while the majority fall within the two to three minute range. Short and sweet.
From the musicianship and vocals to the lyrics and Bryan Paulin's cover art, this band upholds the tradition of being as graphic, gritty, and gruesome as they want, infusing as much significant depth and weight into the production as possible. If you want progression, Onslaught Kommand progress toward more clamor, impurity and carnage with "Malignancy", with no sophisticated intentions. It deserves a fair opportunity for its relentless buzzsaw guitars, chaotic bass, thundering drums at varying speeds, bottomless vocals and descriptive subject matter, all devoid of cleanliness or subtlety. –Dave Wolff
Lineup:
SplatterHate: Vocals, bass
Necromancer: Guitars
Behemot: Guitars
Cvnthvnt: Drums
Track list:
1. Elite Hunting Gore
2. Pissrot Humillation
3. Third World Stoning
4. Becoming a Gut Pile
5. Born to be Deformed
6. Satanic Storming
7. Backyard of Corpses
8. Pervert Goat Kommand
9. Morbid Warfare
10. Inside the Mutilator's Bunker
11. What's in the Abyss?
12. Carbonized at the Lynching Tree
13. One Trench - Several Dead Bodies
14. Axis of the Unholy Power
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