Album Review: Horrifier – Revelations Of Gore
Returning to revile after last year’s walloping Burial Ground EP, Oslo’s HORRIFIER opens its dread tome of death to reveal Revelations Of Gore. After the obligatory intro of ‘Voices’ (check!), ‘Compelled To Slaughter’ begins not with a bang, but a low-level dungeon doom crawl before ripping the lid off with early CANNIBAL CORPSE riffing. That it eventually returns to the realms of doom for the bridge seems less like a throwaway idea and more the foursome stretching themselves, so that by the time the song careens to its explosive end we’re captivated by the off-kilter rhythms, a musical car crash […]