Bestial Colony is an extreme Metal band from Singapore. The band will release its debut album, Sordid Decay, on April 26th, 2024. The album features primitive, extreme metal fury that hearkens back to the early days, which would gratify fans of Venom and Celtic Frost. Released through Morbid And Miserable Records.
Introduction:
Bestial Colony, Sordid Decay: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Sordid Decay
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Bestial Colony and their Sordid Decay album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features distorted and aggressive riffs with fast-paced rhythms, which gives the music an extra layer of aggression. And heavy Bass riffs. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involve sick and guttural vocals perfectly coordinated with the instrumental work. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Primitive and thunderous drumming and beats are fast-paced and drive the music, creating a solid backbone that keeps the rhythm going.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Primitive extreme metal fury that hearkens back to the early days
Before pressing the play button, let’s take a moment to learn about Bestial Colony. Four teenagers in Singapore with no prior music experience formed Bestial Colony. Their goal was to start a metal band in 1990. They drew inspiration from local extreme acts such as Nuctemeron Dread, and Crucifucker. After recording a demo tape, they realised they needed to practise more. Unfortunately, the project only lasted about a year before it eventually fizzled out.
Nefarious (aka Khairil from Vrykolakas) revisited his prior work and re-recorded eight tracks from thirty years ago. The result is the first full-length album from Bestial Colony, Sorid Decay. The album displays the roots of extreme metal, including thrash, death, and black metal, and ignites the passion for metalheads everywhere.
Upon pressing play, the opening song, Into The Sorbid, greets the listener with this face-melting instrumental and sick vocal introduction.
One continues their sonic journey that explores the darker corners of metal, of the second piece, Mutilated Death, and the remaining six songs, which combine death metal brutality, thrash metal aggression, and black metal atmosphere. They also add a proto-metal aura with the darkness of Venom, the rage of Celtic Frost, and the weirdness of Post-Mortem and Exorcist.
Bestial Colony devilmanship provides the listener’s ears with instrumental work characterised by its intense guitar riffs, bass riffs that are heavy and add depth to the music, making it more immersive. Then we have primitive and thunderous drumming and sick vocals — all these elements combine to create a powerful and unique sound that is the hallmark of Bestial Colony.
Bestial Colony’s production quality and the instrumental work were redone; the production and the whole composition were well executed as if it was recorded in yesterday-years, and not today, because of its raw and unpolished sound.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Resurrection. We want to give a shoutout to Bestial Colony for letting us review their Sordid Decay album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review
The last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Bestial Colony and their Sordid Decay album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, combining elements of thrash, death and black metal. Their music promises to be a powerful and intense experience for the listener, delivering a brutal and unrelenting sound that promises the listener’s ears of providing a brutal, sick, and unrelenting experience.
Bestial Colony is a raw and energetic forbidden fruit of art. With a relentless sound and over thirty years of experience, their raw energy, dark themes, and uncompromising performance create an immersive experience for their audience.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
It has a tattoo/tribal feel and look, but it’s brutal as hell!
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Bestial Colony, and their album Sordid Decay.
This concludes the Bestial Colony, Sordid Decay review.
Track-Listing:
- Into the Sordid
- Mutilated Death
- Slow Torture
- Very Disturbed
- Eternal Punishment
- Universal Decay
- Hallucination + War of the Unseen
- Resurrection
Bestial Colony is:
August 1990–March 1991
- Doomcaster – vocals & lyrics
- Infernal – guitars
- Behemoth – bass
- Nefarious – drums
