To Crown All Befoulment strives to take the throne for unremitting nihilism and sonic annihilation of 2020 with it’s infernal, terror-inducing, and lethal combination of black metal, death metal, and bestial/war metal.
The journey the riffs take you on is full of bizarre twists and turns, progressive in a vicious, abrasive way.
Endless Wound is a sentient force primed to call forth the apocalypse in sharp, brutal terror.
Across five tracks of murky darkness, the breath of destruction breathes moste foule… And that’s only the first side.
Overall, Stare into Death and Be Still is a special record; one that defines a turning point in the band’s career.
The result is a record that you WANT to revisit again and again;
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…a triumphant masterpiece, drawing the listener forward in a measured way, all while also channeling the utter chaos of the void.
What Gourmand do so well on this album is to seamlessly mesh weirdo, technical death metal with strange time signatures, bizarre riffs, and the like on one hand, and seriously emotional, passionate music on the other.