Manticore - For Rats and Plague
March 20 2008 at 11:48:08 PM
Akron, Ohio: The void. Resident profaners Manticore unveil the third partition of what vocalist Ixitichitl proudly sneers as "no progression" or "maturing" of their sound. True enough, full-lengths run end to end, forwarding the same devotional missive of Black/Death with emetic purgation. On the surface, at least, For Rats and Plague seems tamer than 2004's exponentially vivid Bowels of the Holy Anoint Us in Evil. But fear not or, in fact, piss yourselves in the cyclonic throe of the trio's borrowed brand, re-composed of global progenitors Beherit, Incantation, Obituary and Archgoat (hailed here through a cover of their "Rise of The Black Moon") each a resinous stain on the bell-chimed, low channel satanic drive, wrangling guitar grind and jumper thud of the drum blasts. Vocals are sussurate, scaley invocations that ride across grotesque intestinal rumbles—multi-tracked exorcisms that chafe and seduce over the holy host, and few have done it so convincingly. One can point to its ultimate repetition, the stalling of timeless art as it remains bound to static uproar—For in something this vulgar the eternal is already a needlessly belabored thought—but its well worth indulging, if not at the expense of your own soul, then—glancing back at the cover art—all equally sacred notions of good taste.
[Todd DePalma]
Manticore
For Rats and Plague
2006
Deathgasm
http://www.deathgasm.com
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