Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Unspeakable is a new band emerging from the depths of St. Louis, Missouri (USA). A rehearsal demo released last month, Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast is their second release after 2015’s Under The Black Spell. The band’s bloodsoaked occult black metal has drawing power if you like Bestial Warlust, Fimbulwinter, Destroyer 666 and Blasphemy. Their influences reach farther back than those bands actually, but I’ll get to that in a few moments. The uninitiated can take it as fair warning, because once the opening riff of Nuclear Meditations gives way to its unadulterated violence there is no turning back. From this alone, you’re conscious of a hunger for conquest those bands I mentioned from the glorious nineties established as essential to their material. The guitars sound as if flanger has been added to their distortion (I was informed this is not the case, it is just the recording equipment the band used); this presents a feel of being dipped in flames as you’re barbarically battered by the laborious bass and drums, flayed alive by the vocals and unnerved by images of demons returning from the netherworld bringing nightmares, wars and eventually the end of the world itself. And there are still four more tracks following this wanton destruction. Fevered Dreams In The Witch House is partly inspired by early hardcore; Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast and Obsessed By Visions Of The Final Epoch Of Man return to the first track’s war metal theme, with brutal hammerstroke accents. To complete the rehearsal the band add a cover of Unspeakable by the 80s black/thrash band NME. Before listening to it I made a point of checking out the song in its original version. Doing so gave me a greater perspective of the statement the Missouri band intended to make here. Being that NME was heavily inspired by Venom, Hellhammer and Discharge I see a connection between Unspeakable and this early 80s flavor both musically and lyrically, though the section in NME’s version quoting from the Satanic Bible was absent from Unspeakable’s version. Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast is available in cassette format and limited to 100 copies so contact the band as soon as humanly possible. -Dave Wolff
Track list:
1. Nuclear Meditations
2. Fevered Dreams In The Witch House
3. Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
4. Obsessed By Visions Of The Final Epoch Of Man
5. Unspeakable (NME Cover)
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