Released: 2005
At face value, Bloodchurn don't look like much more than just another faceless brutal death metal band with a penchant for gore and splatter. Certainly the album title and the cover image of a guy apparently eating his own flesh gives this impression. Indeed, the artwork probably does this band a disservice, because once the actual music begins, Bloodchurn turns out to be quite a decent and fairly noteworthy listen.
This isn't a very original band by any stretch of the imagination, but they do manage to stand out from an extremely overcrowded field. The reason for this is simple: Bloodchurn has the ability to write a bunch of cool songs that don't all bleed into one another, so Ravenous Consumption sounds like an album of nine different tracks rather than the same one repeated end over end for half an hour. Bloodchurn knows how to mix it up, blending flat-out grind parts with more moderately paced sections, an occasional short-lived groove and a trace of melody here and there.
Admittedly, it does get a little repetitive by just over halfway through, but overall this is an enjoyable album with plenty of catchy and at times technical riffs, tidy and varied drumming that doesn't overplay the blastbeat card and genuinely interesting lyrics that obviously took more than a minute to write and don't focus entirely on disembowelment. This is definitely a pretty good effort with enough variety not to get completely lost among the uncounted multitudes.
- Conceived in Blasphemy
- Scavengers
- Strings of Salvation
- Dying Breed
- Skulldrug
- Point of Origin
- A Cataclysmic Blessing
- Born Without a Soul
- Gouge Your Eyes Out
Rating: 70%
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