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Like Malevolent Creation at Obituary's pace, Arkansas' Vore play old school Death Metal of the Brutal for brutality's sake variety. All the components that you've come to know and love are on display with Maleficus, but with more bass guitar than is typical, save on Suffocation records, and this is a good thing. Having slogged it out in the Razorback state for over a decade now, Vore should be poised for greater recognition than they have previously received. If you like Death Metal with conviction and a well polished do-it-yourself credibility, you owe it to yourselves -- and Vore -- to check out this record. The production is good for an independent release, though some sounds appear that typically do not (i.e., feedback, static, fret buzz, etc.). Seemingly a bit short for a proper full length album, 6 songs appear that are more than four and a half minutes in length, in addition to a pair of interludes/introductory tracks -- instrumental "Ashes" is mournful but beautiful. "Threshold of Empowerment" actually invokes Domination-era Morbid Angel, replete with vocal trickery like on "Where the Slime Lives." Now and again throughout the album the defunct Oppressor are also invoked, so if you liked that band, check out Vore now. Maleficus is a(nother) solid effort suggesting good things to come from these sons of The Natural State.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Maleficus |
| 2. The Line That Divides |
| 3. Threshold Of Empowerment |
| 4. Legion Of Martyrs |
| 5. Misery Embrace |
| 6. Ashes |
| 7. Wrath Wrought Ruin |
| 8. Fall Unto Chaos |
: 34.30
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