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Album Review – Tormentor Tyrant / Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty (2025)

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This seasoned trio of musicians from Finland will crush you with their first full-length album, one of the most savage, grinding, furious and primordial Death Metal releases you could face this year.

An ageless entity of evil featuring members from Corpsessed, Solothus, Tyranny, Profetus and Cataleptic, drawing musical influences from Death Metal’s first steps into existence, Helsinki/Järvenpää, Finland based Tormentor Tyrant will leave no survivors with their full-frontal assault of sonic devastation to the sound of their first full-length offering, titled Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty. Recorded at Furnace 5034 and Rehearsalucifer Studios, produced by Tormentor Tyrant, mastered by The Hand of Doom at Toxic Basement Studio, and displaying a sick artwork by Roni Ärling (with layout by Giorgio Spevo of Everlasting Spew Records), the new album by vocalist and guitarist S.Envenom, bassist and vocalist M.Malignant, and drummer J.Carnage is perfect for fans of Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Skeletal Remains, and Laceration, among others, resulting in one of the most savage, grinding, furious and primordial Death Metal releases you could face this year.

The Mephistophelean intro Upheaval Of Tyranny will transport you to the ruthless world ruled by Tormentor Tyrant in Capital Of Pain, offering us all a little more than two minutes of pure savagery led by the inhumane, demented roars by S.Envenom, and let’s keep slamming into the mosh pit to the sound of Torture Divine, where J.Carnage doesn’t stop hammering his drums not even for a single second. Their feast of violence has no time to end, with Tartarean Iron Grip presenting their most destructive side thanks to another bestial performance by J.Carnage on drums; and the trio sounds absolutely merciless and possessed in Crueler Tomorrow, with M.Malignant blasting his bass nonstop while also roaring manically.

In Pit of Anguish, there’s nothing else to do but diving into the circle pit like a true metalmaniac to the demonic vocals by S.Envenom and the band’s vile riffs and classic Death Metal solos, followed by Cosmic Wild Hunt, a brutal and demented display of Finnish Death Metal where their riffs, blast beats and infernal guttural roars sound perfect for some action during their live performances. Then it feels like they’re even more infuriated in Terminal Revelation, with the ruthless drums by J.Carnage providing S.Envenom with the exact level of violence needed to distill his visceral growls; whereas Heavy Death Bombardment, the last song of the album, is just as insane as all previous tracks, where S.Envenom and M.Malignant are beasts incarnate with their riffs and solos.

There’s no extreme down-tuning, no mysticality, nor anything like that in Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty, just sheer unrelenting evil violence in the old way, and the guys from Tormentor Tyrant would simply love to hear what you have to say about their demolishing creations on Facebook and on Instagram, and you can also stream their music on Spotify and, above all that, purchase their fulminating opus by clicking HERE (mailorder) or HERE (BandCamp). The beyond talented and savage musicians from Tormentor Tyrant are not fooling around; they’re out for blood, armed with the ass-kicking Death Metal found in their new album, and you better watch out because once you’re caught into their hurricane of sonic violence, there’s absolutely no way out.

Best moments of the album: Tartarean Iron Grip, Cosmic Wild Hunt and Terminal Revelation.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2025 Everlasting Spew Records

Track listing
1. Intro – Upheaval Of Tyranny 1:16
2. Capital Of Pain 2:20
3. Torture Divine 2:17
4. Tartarean Iron Grip 3:13
5. Crueler Tomorrow 3:20
6. Pit of Anguish 2:36
7. Cosmic Wild Hunt 4:20
8. Terminal Revelation 2:33
9. Heavy Death Bombardment 4:59

Band members
S.Envenom – vocals, rhythm guitars
M.Malignant – bass, lead guitars, vocals
J.Carnage – drums

Album Review – Dark Archive / Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon EP (2018)

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Sharing the same admiration and respect for the beauty of darkness and Satan, this infernal Finnish duo will pulverize your senses with 17 minutes of ruthless and vibrant Black Metal.

Formed in the summer of 2016 in Finland by vocalist and lyricist Niko “Perdition” Aromaa and composer and multi-instrumentalist Joakim “Lord Mordor” Lindholm, with a vision to form a Black Metal band that would create something fresh and something which would stand out from the scene, the demonic entity known as Dark Archive is ready to spread darkness upon the earth with their brand new EP titled Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon. Considering themselves as a satanic band, with both Niko and Joakim sharing the same admiration and respect for the beauty of darkness and Satan, Dark Archive will pulverize your senses with each of the five tracks in Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon, making you feel all that darkness growing inside you during the album’s 17 minutes of ruthless extreme music.

Sinister sounds are suddenly joined by a sulphurous onrush of Black Metal in the opening track, Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon, with Joakim blasting demonic beats and riffs nonstop while Niko growls the song’s blasphemous and poetic lyrics in a rabid way (“Hunger holds their brethren, as they hold this world dominion, even voices of our fathers can’t describe this burden / Beneath their holy sculptures, they see us as aberrations to their perfect heaven frame, we are the caricature”). Put differently, if you want violence, Dark Archive will give you violence, which can also be said about Closure Of Empyrean Delirium, where the duo brings modern and deranged Black Metal for your avid ears. In this flammable tune, Niko keeps screaming like a savage beast while Joakim continues to pave his path of devastation, with the overall result sounding like a less symphonic version of the early days of Dimmu Borgir.

Their fusion of contemporary Blackened Death Metal and old school Black Metal gives form to another hellish composition titled Godfear Eradication, where Joakim kicks some serious ass with his scorching riffs while austere words are aggressively vociferated by Niko (“While they burden their grief / While puppets dance behind the curtains / Waiting to unleash / Still they flood air with words from bible / Toxic as gas”); followed by the pulverizing Unohda Ei Ikinä, or “never forget” from Finnish, with its demonic guitar riffs crawling deep inside your skin, sounding as belligerent, demented and enraged as it can be, but still bringing tons of harmony and feeling in an amazing exhibit of modern-day Extreme Metal. And the duo has time for one final blast of absolute darkness and hatred entitled Essence Of Death, with both Niko and Joakim sounding extremely vile and sharp with their harsh growls, fierce riffs and thunderous drums.

Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon, which by the way is available for a full listen on Spotify, certainly points to a dark future (in a good way, of course) for Dark Archive, and if you want to show your support for such up-and-coming name of the underground extreme music scene go check their Facebook page for news and tour dates, their YouTube channel and SoundCloud page for more of their disturbing music, and obviously grab your copy of the EP from their own BandCamp page or from iTunes. If this demonic Finnish duo was capable of creating such high level of devastation and obscurity in just a little over 17 minutes, can you imagine what they’ll be able to accomplish when they release their first full-length opus?

Best moments of the album: Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon and Unohda Ei Ikinä.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2018 Inverse Records

Track listing
1. Cultivate Our Blood In Aeon 4:03
2. Closure Of Empyrean Delirium 2:22
3. Godfear Eradication 4:31
4. Unohda Ei Ikinä 3:36
5. Essence Of Death 2:40

Band members
Niko “Perdition” Aromaa – vocals
Joakim “Lord Mordor” Lindholm – all instruments