Athenaeum Of Sin Reviews

Chestcrush – Vdeygmia Review: An Extreme Death Black band from the United Kingdom, Scotland. July, 14th 2021 the band independently released their debut studio album Vdelygmia.

Chestcrush – Vdeygmia Review opens and discusses the FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS. Consists of napalm-burning guitar riffs with an atmosphere of distortion, brutalization, and bone-crushing, extreme bass riffs -that scrap the bottom of the cell floor.

THE SECOND SIN for discussion is the VOCALS, which consist of blood-chilling war cries.

THE THIRD SIN for discussion is the DRUMS, which consists of incorporating arsenal weaponry drumming and incessant blast beats.

FOURTH SIN is the OVERALL DISCUSSION for the album: Immediately the listener presses the play button, one is welcome to an atmospheric soundtrack of horror, anguish, and terror in under thirty minutes of runtime and nine nightmarish tracks, where the music feels and sounds like it crawled out of the plague infestation underground (abandon) city of Edinburgh.

THE DIGESTER opens the release and welcomes the listener with the sound of -Esque “black & white horror film” soundscape and the sound of eerie violins -building up with the awaking of drums and bone-crushing sludge riffs and chilling blood cries.

Following suit with the second track DIFFERENT SHEPHERD SAME SHEEP and the seven remaining nightmarish tracks.

Continuing with VDELYGMIA¹, that not only amalgamates black/death metal, abrupt-grind, and bone-shattering sludge but also there are elements of hardcore punk, old-school black/death metal, raw black metal, blazing tempos, violent vocals, heavy blackened and bleak/brutal atmosphere (reduces the melodic influence on a necessary amount), that doesn’t feel like the elements, are fused to together like dancing thunder strikes, but more like a (smooth) running river filled with blood or Frankenstein’s stitches, that’s crafted together with perfection and providing the listener with a unique and crushing style.

Simultaneously, the album has created a decaying, morbid breath of chaos, relentless of hate and malice debut – while the production sounds like it was recorded beneath a dirge dungeon cell -giving that raw and unpolished feel, the devilmanship is fantastic and provides the listener with thunderous and heavy/thick drums, rapid-fire (crushing) riffs, vocals ranging from raspy vocals to sometimes low, hellish gutturals and music to torture your speakers and your soul.

CHESTCRUSH is a terrifying anthem, lyrically devoted to coping with own mental and physical health tragedies (why the band’s name is chosen for this reason) and unbearable abhorrence to the current political/theocratic situation in “Evangelos” motherland Greece.

VDELYGMIA is a crown jewel of pure underground extreme metal, total sonic destruction, and a heavy, brutal, blackened, and bleak nightmare. For any extreme metal, black/death, sludge, and grindcore fan.

FIFTH SIN, the MEMORABILIA. The entirety of the work, from its inception to its completion, is marked by an unparalleled level of intensity. Every aspect is carefully crafted to create a deeply immersive experience for the audience

SIXTH SIN, the ARTWORK. This is sick and heavy artwork. It has this Clive Barker “Hellraiser” look and feel; it suits the lyrical theme of the music and the music itself.

Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH, and the closing piece, VAPTIZETAI O DOULOS. With nothing to disrelish within the musical world of  CHESTCRUSH. We can proceed with the closing pieces of the album. VAPTIZETAI O DOULOS welcomes the listener with an -Esque Depressive Black Metal atmosphere soundscape of a slow doom-like feel of distorted riffs/pounding drums and inhaling moans of sorrow/despair vocals – that seem to tear your soul apart with its (but beautiful) terrifying, horrifyingly and depressive sound. This brings the music and the Chestcrush – Vdeygmia Review to closure.

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1. “Vdelygmia,” a Greek word initially spelled “Βδελυγμία” which means “abomination,” “filth,” and “repulsion” of extreme levels and can be used both to define the feeling towards an act of a person, who is sorely corrupted and depraved. This title ultimately reflects the musical part of the album, which is so beautifully disgusting, violent, terrifying, horrifyingly brutal, and stunningly ugly as a nearly perfect ↩︎

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