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Album Review – Anthropophagus Depravity / Demonic Paradise (2024)

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Beneath the burning skies the moment of victory arrives, with the new album by this Indonesian Brutal Death Metal horde being the perfect soundtrack for a demonic paradise.

Following on from the pulverizing attack of their 2021 debut album Apocalypto, Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s own Brutal Death Metal brigade Athropophagus Depravity has returned with a new collection of terror inducing hymns of horror, entitled Demonic Paradise. Mixed and mastered by Indra Cahya at Texas Soundlab, with a sick artwork by Bvllmetalart and layout by Yoga Beges, the sophomore album by vocalist Pandu Herlambang, guitarist Eko Aryo Widodo, bassist Yohanes Widiasmoro and drummer Sahrul Ramadhan showcases a band that has taken the chilling atmosphere and bludgeoning violence of their debut effort and elevated all that to new levels of intricate performance and accomplished brutality, being therefore perfect for fans of Devangelic, Immolation, Cryptopsy and Incantation, or in other words, a tour de force of Brutal Death Metal, and an absolute master class in sonic savagery.

The opening track The Obscure Realm is utterly sick and brutal from the very first second, with Sarhul showing no mercy for our necks and bodies, slamming his drums like a demented creature while Pandu roars and barks manically in a beyond visceral start to the album, whereas Dogma Weakened Souls is another hurricane of Brutal Death Metal by the quartet with Eko extracting some classic Cannibal Corpse riffs from his guitar. Sahrul takes the lead with his unstoppable blast beats in Malicious Catastrophe, generating a thunderous atmosphere perfect for Pandu to keep firing his deep guttural roars, while Obliterate the Sanctified sounds even heavier and more infernal, with Eko’s riffs being supported in great fashion by Yohanes’ low-tuned, rumbling bass, feeling extremely brutal and vile. Then get ready to slam into the pit like there’s no tomorrow to the sound of Preaching Above Depravity, where the band’s intense sounds fill every single space in the air in the name of Death Metal.

The title-track Demonic Paradise brings forward more of the quartet’s hellish and vile Death Metal, with Sahrul once again stealing the spotlight with a beyond ruthless performance behind his drums, and things get really dark and devilish in When the Darkthrone Reigns, a phantasmagorical interlude that could have been slightly shorter, setting the stage for the band to kill in Pseudo Salvation, an inhumane creation by Anthropophagus Depravity where the deep, visceral vociferations by Pandy will haunt your damned soul for all eternity, resulting in one of the most infernal of all songs; followed by …of Condemnation, offering our putrid ears two and a half minutes of pure Brutal Death Metal instrumental insanity while also showcasing lots of technical and intricate moments, with Eko slashing his axe nonstop for our vulgar delectation. Finally, the band hammers our cranial skulls one last time in Delusions of the Unholy, with the savage roars by Pandu walking hand in hand with the scorching riffs, rumbling bass and demented beats by his bandmates.

Beneath the burning skies the moment of victory arrives, and just before all hell breaks loose you can grab a copy of the new album by Anthropophagus Depravity by clicking HERE (CD and merch) or HERE (digital), and don’t forget to also give those talented Indonesian guys a shout on Facebook and on Instagram, to subscribe to their YouTube channel, to stream more of their music on Spotify, and also click HERE for all things Anthropophagus Depravity, letting their devilish music penetrate deep inside your soul, turning you into a fallen angel in their brutal and visceral demonic paradise.

Best moments of the album: The Obscure Realm, Obliterate the Sanctified and Pseudo Salvation.

Worst moments of the album: When the Darkthrone Reigns.

Released in 2024 Comatose Music

Track listing
1. The Obscure Realm 2:54
2. Dogma Weakened Souls 3:33
3. Malicious Catastrophe 2:59
4. Obliterate the Sanctified 3:10
5. Preaching Above Depravity 3:54
6. Demonic Paradise 3:16
7. When the Darkthrone Reigns 3:00
8. Pseudo Salvation 3:11
9. …of Condemnation 2:23
10. Delusions of the Unholy 3:16

Band members
Pandu Herlambang – vocals
Eko Aryo Widodo – guitar
Yohanes Widiasmoro – bass
Sahrul Ramadhan – drums

Album Review – Anthropophagus Depravity / Apocalypto (2021)

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Prepare for a new age of wicked superstition and the rebirth of old and hungry gods to the sound of the debut album by this Indonesian Death Metal tribe.

3.5rating

anthropophagus-depravity-apocalypto-2021Indonesia is a festering sore of Brutal Death Metal, infected with an array of bands that explore the outer limits of savagery and sickness just like Yogyakarta-based horde Anthropophagus Depravity. Writhing like maggots in a wound, these pioneers of putridity eat their way deeper and deeper into the darkness, entwining shuddering heaviness with chilling atmosphere and nightmarish brutality. Their debut full length album, entitled Apocalypto, is a torrent of overwhelming, suffocating horror that feeds upon the vicious rituals of the ancient Mayan religion, with its furious riffs and relentless blasts seeming to force themselves down your throat, choking you with a pitiless intensity. Armed with furious riffs, relentless blasts and nerve-shredding atmosphere, the band comprised of Pandu Herlambang on vocals, Eko Aryo Widodo and Rico Zerico on the guitars, Cahyono Hari Wijayanto on bass and Sahrul Ramadhan on drums is ready to kill with their shuddering heaviness, turning their new opus into a must-have for admirers of the music by Devangelic, Relics of Humanity, Disentomb and Analepsy.

The intro Hymn to Apocalypto kicks off with the vile riffage by Eko and Rico while Sahrul already showcases his rage behind his drums, with its tribalistic second half setting the tone for the Deathslam hymn Forecasting Ruination, with Pandu roaring like a demented beast from the underworld and, therefore, sounding perfect for slamming into the pit to the fulminating beats by Sahrul and the classic Death Metal riffs by the band’s guitar duo. Then a quick cinematic start explodes into sheer brutality in the visceral The Mayan Disaster, continuing their path of devastation, blood and fear, while Eko and Rico’s guitars are nicely supported by Cahyono’s infernal bass punches; and a gruesome gnarl by Pandu ignites another feast of dementia entitled Temple of Sacrifice, with Sahrul showing no mercy for his drums (and consequently for our necks) in a great display of contemporary Brutal Death Metal.

If you think those Indonesian metallers are tired of slamming our heads with their brutal music you’re absolutely wrong, as they offer us the straightforward, in-your-face tune Immolation for the Sacred God, showcasing their usual violence in the form of guttural growls, slashing riffs and pulverizing drums; whereas Pandu sounds even more furious than before in Escape from the Dead Lands, accompanied by the hellish kitchen crafted by Sahrul and Cahyrono. Their second to last Apocalyptic Death Metal extravaganza comes in the form of Ruthless Nation Perished, with Pandu roaring and gurgling rabidly from start to finish, or in other words, it’s another fantastic option for crushing your spinal cord into the circle pit, not to mention its disturbing ending, I might say, flowing into Mantra Solar Eclipse, a six-minute ritualistic, demolishing Death Metal creation by Anthropophagus Depravity that will haunt your souls for all eternity, with Pandu taking the lead once again with his wicked roaring, all spiced up by a sick guitar solo to properly end the album.

anthropophagus-depravity-2021The vile and infernal Death Metal blasted by Anthropophagus Depravity in Apocalypto can be appreciated in full on YouTube and on Spotify, but of course in order to take part in their demonic rituals you should definitely purchase the album from Comatose Music’s BandCamp page or webstore, as well as from Amazon and other retailers like Barnes & Noble. In addition, don’t forget to follow this talented Indonesian tribe on Facebook and on Instagram, and to subscribe to their YouTube channel for more of their pulverizing creations. Having said all that, prepare for a new age of wicked superstition and the rebirth of old and hungry gods, and of course for slamming into the circle pit like a rabid beast, to the sound of Apocalypto.

Best moments of the album: Forecasting Ruination and Ruthless Nation Perished.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2021 Comatose Music

Track listing   
1. Hymn to Apocalypto 2:46
2. Forecasting Ruination 4:33
3. The Mayan Disaster 3:43
4. Temple of Sacrifice 4:38
5. Immolation for the Sacred God 4:26
6. Escape from the Dead Lands 3:10
7. Ruthless Nation Perished 4:12
8. Mantra Solar Eclipse 6:17

Band members
Pandu Herlambang – vocals
Eko Aryo Widodo – guitar
Rico Zerico – guitar
Cahyono Hari Wijayanto – bass
Sahrul Ramadhan – drums

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