New York City-based black metal allies Viserion and Teloch Vovin unite on the ferocious new split album. Showcases the writing styles of both bands in a savage, coordinated release. The Iron Age of Kali Yuga was independently released on July 28th, 2023.
Introduction:
Viserion and Teloch Vovin, The Iron Age of Kali Yuga: 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 The Iron Age of Kali Yuga
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Viserion and Teloch Vovin and their split album, The Iron Age of Kali Yuga.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features fast-dual distorted and razor-sharp fret-board shredding of the guitar provided by Viserion, while Teloch Vovin provides the listener with heavy haunting riffs/shredding, with thunderous bass riffs. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves piercing shrieks to guttural growls provided by Viserion. At the same time, Teloch Vovin offers the listener a powerful combination/of twin aggressive snarls and menacing death growls. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of arsenal of drum strikes/blast beats from Teloch Vovin, while Viserion consists of relentless and thunderous drums percussion to their listener.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Will satisfy your craving for dark, raw, powerful, haunting and intense music
Immediately, the listener presses that play button, greeted by the band Viserion, and their opening piece Reborn In Darkness. This sets the dark instrumental and vocal onslaught introduction upon the listener’s ears, setting the dark tone and ominous atmosphere for the rest of the release.
The listener immerses their ears and soul into this dark and evil musical journey, which sends chills down the spine of even the bravest listener. The second and third pieces, Abandoned and Fathers, deliver a musical experience delving into the deepest, darkest corners of the band’s forbidden fruit of art.
The sheer chaos and fury of the instrumental, vocal and devilmanship performances are embodied by the fast-dual distorted and razor-sharp fret-board shredding of the guitar. The relentless and thunderous percussion of the drums and vocals range from piercing shrieks to guttural growls. The inclusion of guest vocalists adds more depth to each of these songs, which includes the inhaling torture snarls and screams provided by Xenomorph on the opening track.
Finnish off with Viserion, and their third piece Feather, which greets the with a seven-minute-long composition that tells the tale of the centurion who bore the spear that killed Jesus. Feather features a duo of Ben Marvilli and Janan Kerry of Protagony. The song flawlessly transitions from a brutal and intense piece to a soft and delicate piano ending, leaving the listener in awe of the stunning, beautiful, yet undeniably evil composition.
You’re Listening to (Viserion) “Fathers”
PlayThe fourth piece greets the listener with the band Teloch Vovin, and their opening piece Elohim Acherim Preludium and their remaining six pieces. The opening piece, Elohim Acherim Preludium, greets the listener with a chilling and haunting soundscape, setting the tone for the remaining nightmarish journey ahead.
As the listener continues their dark journey with the fifth self-titled track, Teloch Vovin, intensity and darkness spring to life, showcasing their true eerie sound and ominous atmosphere of creating a sense of dread and unease through their music.
This new and exciting discovery has a captivating and unique sound that also delves within the deepest, darkest corners of the band’s forbidden fruit of art. This fruit of art consists of raw, chaos and fury instrumental, vocal and devilmanship performances from the moment of pressing that play button.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Death’s Pentagrammaton. Greets the listener with a forty-second peace, which surrounds the listener with an eerie atmosphere and chants, which adds an extra haunting and nightmarish feel to the music.
We want to give a shoutout to Viserion for letting us review this savage, coordinated release. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to (Teloch Vovin) “An Eastern Temple”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Viserion and Teloch Vovin and their split album, The Iron Age of Kali Yuga.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: The Iron Age of Kali Yuga is brimming with an intense, ominous energy that grips you from the first note and holds you in its grasp until the end. The attention to detail in the devilmanship, production, and instrumentation is extraordinary.
Guest appearances by Xenomorph and Protagony enhance the album’s impressive depth and complexity, making it feel more like a cohesive compilation than a mere split release.
As someone already familiar with the work of Xenomorph and Viserion, I was particularly impressed by the dark, brooding nature of Teloch Vovin and the vocal fruit of art by Protagony. However, the track Fathers truly stood out to me. I highly recommend this album to any fan of black metal. It offers the essence of pure evil, darkness, and rawest –thus making it a must-listen for any extreme or black metal enthusiast and anyone who appreciates the darker side of music.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The painting conveys a haunting sense of darkness and an awe-inspiring sense of grandeur.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Viserion and Teloch Vovin, and their split album, The Iron Age of Kali Yuga.
This concludes the Viserion and Teloch Vovin, The Iron Age of Kali Yuga review.
Track-Listing:
- Reborn in Darkness – Viserion
- Abandoned – Viserion
- Fathers – Viserion
- Elohim Acherim: Preludium – Teloch Vovin
- Teloch Vovin – Teloch Vovin
- Keys to the Void – Teloch Vovin
- Dragon Sworn – Teloch Vovin
- Bells Ov Perdition – Teloch Vovin
- An Eastern Temple – Teloch Vovin
- Death’s Pentagrammaton – Teloch Vovin
Viserion and Teloch Vovin are:
- Ben Marvilli – guitar/vocals – Viserion
- Cris V – guitar – Viserion
- Matthew Marvilli – drums – Viserion
- Tasso Diakov – bass – Viserion
- Grigori – guitars – Teloch Vovin
- Telal – vocals – Teloch Vovin
- Ash – drums – Teloch Vovin
- Bab Ogun – vocals – Teloch Vovin
- Saturnus – bass – Teloch Vovin
- Azag – keys, back vocals – Teloch Vovin
- Proph – noise, effects) – Teloch Vovin
