09/10/2025
-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW-
BAND: SUFFERING HOUR
EP: IMPELLING REBIRTH
LABEL: Profound Lore Records
Following what amounted to my introduction to the idiosyncratic onslaught of Black/Death Metal conjured forth by Suffering Hour entitled 'The Cyclic Reckoning', a bewitching and eerie confluence of Black/Death Metal, my focus on their musical wares faded into the ether due to no specific reason as opposed to my all consuming wanderlust for all things furious and fecund.
In other words, my attention zeroed in on other collectives. I still have yet to experience their split with Multhusian, titled 'Time's Withering Shadow'. In that regard I had not heard any new sonic invocations by this Minnesota based battalion for a protracted period of time.
With conviction and awe I can confidently state that their latest EP for Profound Lore Records titled 'Impelling Rebirth' is a pernicious, punishing and pummeling collection of songs that are as darkly atmospheric as they are ferocious.
Beginning with the pounding permafrost of 'Impelling Rebirth', a pummeling song that is aesthetically more Black Metal oriented in terms of tonality and melody, 'Impelling Rebirth' ignites its sonic theatrics with melancholic and murderous glee.
Track two 'Anamesis' is threaded through with some scorching Thrash riffs and a central melodious overture that is grand in its entirety. At just under two minutes its tumult is short lived.
'Revelation Of Mortality' displays a mixture of that which is melancholic and malevolent, a hybrid that Suffering Hour excel at, with its latter half being a bludgeoning display of neck snapping riffs and fiery rhythms.
Track three 'Incessant Dissent' is my favorite song on this EP. Constructed from riffs exvavated from the cryptic playbook frequented by Mayhem and Dissection as well as having a propulsive tempo, said track is a raw, recalcitrant, robust, ravishing, rip-roaring work of Black-Death desecration.
Last track 'Inexorable Downfall' is stitched together with tight Thrash infused riffs, gnarly guitar effects, double kick battery and subterranean bass, a fitting conclusion to a corrosive EP.
I feel that this, their latest release, is far more lethal, violent and cohesive then 'The Cyclic Reckoning', an album that is nonetheless captivating and high caliber.
'Impelling Rebirth' is a deadly statement of scorching Black/Death Metal driven by bone shattering drum battery, blistering riffs and gravel throated vocals that result in a feral five track exercise in artery bursting Black/Death Metal that is one of my hellish highlights of this harrowing year.
-ASHER LOCKETZ-
LISTEN AND BURN 🔥👹💀👹🔥
https://sufferinghour.bandcamp.com/album/impelling-rebirth
5 track album
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