Produced by Wrest
Released: 2004
I never really know what to expect from US label Moribund Records because they don’t exactly deal in the sort of metal that I typically enjoy and yet the stuff they do release can be either so compellingly awful or inherently different and bizarre that it can’t really be ignored. Out of this Pandora's box of musical strangeness is Leviathan, a one-man USBM unit inspired by early Burzum, but one who uses that inspiration to create music of an incredibly twisted and perverse nature that stands alone.
Rather like its cover art, Tentacles of Whorror is a truly demented release, as if it came from the bowels of Hell itself. At times the clean guitars are deliberately off-key and often don’t appear to even be in tune, then all of a sudden an enormous blastbeat section comes up and swallows everything only to give way to a painfully slow, dirge-like funereal passage. Depressing ambient sections are juxtaposed with crushing riffs and hair-raising vocal shrieks. It certainly isn’t something to be listened to for the purposes of enjoyment, rather an album that mesmerises with its truly disturbing nature. At a whopping 72 minutes in length and with some songs like the title track and the deeply troubling "A History of Rape" running over eight minutes, Tentacles of Whorror is also an overwhelmingly epic release.
Absolutely not for everybody, Tentacles of Whorror really is for the most extreme tastes only!
- What Fresh Hell
- Heir to the Noose of Ghoul
- Cut With the Night Into Mine Heart
- A Bouquet of Blood for Skull
- Deciphering Legend Within the Serpent's Briar
- A Necessary Mutilation
- Vexed and Vomit Hexed
- Tentacles of Whorror (Revel the Tyrant)
- Requiem for a Turd World
- Blood Red and True: Pt 3 (Plummeting Obscure)
- Mouth Orifice Bizarre
- The History of Rape
Rating: 73%
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