Iniquitous Savagery is back!
The adventure began in 2012 in the UK, with a debut EP, followed by a demo and finally an album in 2015. Nine years later, Joe Fleetwood (guitar, ex-Party Cannon), Chris Ryan (bass, Party Cannon, ex-Laceration) and Euan Harrison (drums) recruited Liam McCall (vocals, Aphotic, live for Operation Cunt Destroyer) to create Edifice of Vicissitudes, released via Willowtip Records.
Casualty of Diabolical Trial takes us by surprise with its continuous, sometimes dissonant violence, over which the vocalist vociferates at full power. It’s easy to see that the band draws inspiration for its riffs from the American scene, just as on Synaptic Cull, where the patterns are reminiscent of certain well-known bands created in the late ’80s, allowing for massive regularity. The final explosion comes as a surprise before moving on to Choked Before First Breath, where worked parts meet particularly thick palm-mutes in effective moshparts, then the same recipe is applied to Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction on a devastating blast. The track turns into a series of breaks, which will probably give rise to waves of uncontrollable moshes, before the final sample leads into Narcotic Exsanguination, where the vocal parts become almost ominous before returning to their initial rage. After a final worthy of a futuristic universe, Lifeblood takes over, returning to the charge with raw, fast riffs beneath savage howls, and the carnage continues in similar fashion on Drenched in Righteous Offal, the next track, where numerous accelerations punctuate the march. The album closes with the equally refined Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age, the ultimate composition, which in turn features riffing geared towards a perpetual flow of violence, whether in speed or crushing groove before literally exploding.
Iniquitous Savagery perfectly masters the arcana of Old School Brutal Death, injecting it with spikes of controlled technicality as well as simpler moshparts. If you like violence, listen to Edifice of Vicissitudes.
85/100