Diocletian - Doom Cult
December 18 2009 at 01:27:01 AM
It's war. Shoot to kill. You'll never win a purple heart of war metal without a tour of duty.
Named for the Roman ruler, warmaster, and Christian persecutor, Diocletian has rifled off a salvo just about once a year during its four years of service. This, the first full-length campaign proves to be a focused
exercise in oppression.
Semi-automatic snare rolls continually strafe over churning, clashing torrential riffs, air raid leads, and endless pickslides. So thorough is their quest for extermination that the vocals, too, were oppressed in the mix under the weight of the downtuned chaos. Fervored swinging, syncopated drum volleys never suffer at the altar of precision. The body pummeled to the brink of death, dragged along, left limp and supine. Steel belts melt. Chain drives grind to a halt. Death the cure for punishment; the corpse propped up again for more battery. Craniums are split primarily in three chords or less, with the exception of possessed tremelo riffs of death.
The appearance of familiar Blasphemy riffs among ten second plus Araya-an banshee wails and ominous spates of ambience should come as no surprise. Ross Bay Rager, R. Forster , wrote a whole song for them! Helmkamp wrote some lyrics too. War !
[Patrick Delaney]
1.jpg "Label Profile: The Ajna Offensive")
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