Canadian duo Gevurah deal in the kind of filthy, dark and dank death metal that the likes of Mitochondrion, Grave Miasma and Cruciamentum have pushed for in recent times. Both deeply unholy and gloriously dirty, Necheshirion is the band’s debut EP and it follows a demo so well received that it sold out almost immediately. Their route into the darkness is one that treads the path of Satanic majesty and as such the two minds behind this project allow the Dark Lord to work through their music with a savage and sly grace.
The name Gevurah is taken from the kabbalistic tree of life and when taken in non-Jewish terms, Gevurah is seen as the opposing force to God’s good will and as such the aspect that allows terrible things to happen and much suffering to occur. Ultimately Gevurah have aimed to encompass all that is wrong with the world and Necheshirion is certainly a work that evokes feelings of gross unease and claustrophobic paranoia, from the opening discord of “The Essence Unbound” to the closing dissonance of their cover of Malign’s “Entering Timeless Halls.”
Gevurah feed on discomfort and their sound is at times overwhelming, cloying and full of sulphuric hate. Necheshirion flows with a tangible and heady thrum of dark will and X.T’s (also drums) voice conveys the work of an unseemly entity via guttural roars and heightened streams of horror-laden curses. “Flesh Bounds Desecrated” pulses with a steady malevolence before the arcane spell of “The Throne of Lucifer.” Hypnotic rises of guitar (A.L. – also on bass) glisten through the jarringly melodic progression of the track. X.T.’s invocations are divinely depraved in tone and the deadly and malicious undercurrent of Gevurah’s manifesto seeps into the songs like blood into the earth. Consuming.
Order Necheshirion from Profound Lore Records immediately.
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