Prophecies of Malevolence TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE Review

If music can act as a portal to other dimensions, Temple Nightside’s 2011 release Prophecies of Malevolence, out now via Adverse Order Music, will transport your being to a place where spirits will sacifrice your nightmares. For just over 26 minutes, this sonic masterpiece of ritualistic death metal will have you transfixed. It’s the way that Temple Nightside uses dead space mixed with eerie drones that make you lose yourself in their world of never-ending ancient audio caves. When I listen to this record, at times I feel like I’m back in time, walking the earth with prehistoric beings, before fire was discovered, communicating with the center of the earth. Temple Nightside creates perfect moments of death drama in the songs that sound epic in scope, but totally filthy in essence. This band will beat your skull in with heavy monolithic stones of sound! The production on their record is perfect – it has a huge, lo-fi quality about it that rots out my eardrums the way death metal should. When you hear the vocals, you will get the sensation that cockroaches are chewing away at your flesh, but you won’t mind it, because the unseen hand of darkness will bury your head in their bleak ocean of dirge. The riffs on Prophecies of Malevolence speak a language of torment that seems deranged, but it has this subversive catchy vibe about it. Temple Nightside have put out a record that will convert punks and doom heads to death metal. At the same time, the way these warriors of the left hand path write songs can at times almost seem avant garde. Prophecies of Malevolence is packed full of tones and drones that will be your portal into a space were darkness is the light. Temple Nightside has given the world a sonic ritual that will only enhance your high, and you can purchase it HERE – peep the stream below!

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