Band: Denouncement Pyre
Title: World Cremation
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Distribution: Hells Headbangers Records
Release date: 23/07/2010
Review: CD

Spawned from the deepest pits from Deep Down Under, Denouncement Pyre have stood standard for pitch-black Death Terror. Until now, it was through EP’s and one mini-album, one live-album and some demos, yet now it’s time for the band’s debut studio full length, World Cremation, which lasts for thirty seven minutes. World Cremation will be released on CD and gatefold LP, plus a limited digipack CD version and a coloured vinyl edition with patch and poster.

The album brings the most intense Denouncement Pyre material to date, lifted up by a gargantuan yet rather primitive and raw production. The blaspheme symbiosis of raging Death Metal and unholy Black Metal sounds very obscure, old school-inspired and oppressing, with a rhythmic, Thrash-driven and energetic drive and a rather dirty atmosphere, something the Australian (underground) scene is known for – and something I do hail. Hail!

Unique? No, not at all. But performed with such a grotesque bravoure, you cannot but love this recording.

87/100

Ivan Tibos.