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Album Review: Reptilian Death – The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence

Mumbai metal supergroup play slick and sick death metal

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Who knows the deepest, darkest and most brutal imagery? It’s Vinay Venkatesh, of course, the vocalist of deathcore band Bhayanak Maut, who reaches into the most guttural instincts, in terms of vocal range and lyrics. You’re wincing when you hear him growl through tight swift riffs on songs like “Inchoate” and “Emerge, Hatred, Emerge.”

Sahil Makhija matches Venkatesh’s twisted verse on sex and violence with blistering riffs and grooves (Makhija handles both drums and guitars for the band, while Demonic Resurrection’s Ashwin Shriyan is on bass). When you talk about demons and sexual deviance, you’re either going to be laughed off or become one of the better death metal bands in the country. The band has its weak moments on “Distorted By Bondage, Blood & Bestiality,” which could pass off for a Bhayanak Maut track, but rise to some double-bass madness on the blasphemous “Patchwork and the Art of Skinning,” and melodic death number “O.”

This review appeared in the May 2013 issue of ROLLING STONE India.

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