Released: 2006
The aliases should have given it away, but looking at the photos of the guys in the booklet, I first assumed that Perth’s The Uncreation would be a knock-about thrash unit. Then, after the funny intro, the band starts playing Emperor-style melodic black metal! “At War With God” is blistering tremolo melodies and grim, almost spectral vocals at a feverish pace. From here, The Uncreation checks into Deströyer 666-style territory with “The Fall of Jehova” that segues into a quiet acoustic passage before plunging into breakneck thrash once again.
The title track has a cool slow crunch and evil-sounding vocals that wrap themselves around one of Lovecraft’s chants from The Call of Cthulu very agreeably at the end and “Black Earth” is more fast black metal. “The Great Nothingness” and “The Testimony” are both 8-minute epics, the first a dark doom piece with suitably atmospheric keyboards and the second rounding out the album much the way it started.
Sleeping in R’lyeh has a nice diversity about it that never gets too clever for its own good and the production makes the material stand pretty tall. Overall, this is quite a strong debut effort. The Uncreation (formerly known as Nemesis, one of the most overused band names ever) have put together something of a surprise package here that should appeal to black, thrash and death fans alike.
- Intro
- At War With God
- The Fall of Jehovah
- Hypocritical, Lies, Divine
- Dreaming in R'lyeh
- The Great Nothingness
- Black Earth
- Awaiss
- The Testimony
Rating: 70%
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