Immediately the listener presses the play button, one is welcomed to an atmospheric soundtrack of horror, anguish, and terror in under thirty minutes of runtime and nine nightmarish tracks. 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 Vdelygmia, 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. It’s crafted together with perfection and provides 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.
The album ends with the last song, 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. These seem to tear your soul apart with its (but beautiful) terrifying, horrifyingly and depressive sound. We would like to thank Chestcrush for letting us review his new album, Vdelygmia. We will wrap it up by discussing the final three sins and concluding the review.
