Flop Death black.
Exsul is back with their second EP called Allegoresis with 6 tracks clocking in at 23 minutes. After the very “so-so” first one I thought they would return in a better form and definitely is NOT the case here.
They are back with a very generic form of brutal music, that is not captivating although they do efforts to get into that. Songs like Noesis and How in the Land of Satin We Saw Hearsay, Who Kept a School of Vouching (seriously is this a joke?), they are not bad, they are not good either.
There are two interludes that really doesn’t add to the effort which are Glaucon’s Dilemma and Pantagruelion that we could live well without them, thanks.
Of course, there are some good coming out of the speakers in the form of the track Psychomachia who has an ultra brutal mid-tempo approach and explodes in a real deal ignorant and infernal music with beautiful guttural vocals, one point to them! Seriously good track.
To put an end, a marvelous Motörhead cover Sweet Revenge (I’ve listened to other covers of the same music and this one is the best, GO FIGURE!).
The end result is an album that only fanatics for extreme music will like and maybe will not captivate a major audience.
Allegoresis is out now on Caligari Records.
Rating: 6/10
Roderick Blutrache
Dark Souls United 