Rating: 7.2

Country: Colombia

Release Date: 2008

Record Label: Sevared / Butchered Records

Track list:
1. Prayer Of Doom (Chronicle Of The Mad Arab)
2. Lugubrious Crimson Twilight
3. Endless Infernal Darkness
4. Mystic Void
5. Calling The Wrath Of Evil
6. Crawling Chaos
7. Abominations Of The Nebulah Mortiis
8. Cthulhu Fhtagn…

Band Website: Yogth Sothoth

Yogth Sothoth - Abominations of the Nebulah Mortiis

Carlos Zea - Guitar
Klisgor - Vocals
Victor Hoyos - Bass
Mauricio Londoño - Drums

Colombian band Yogth Sothoth conjure forth an evil and sinister form of death metal music, “bestial death metal” as they insist on calling it as though goblins pop out of the speakers whenever their music is played. They have a couple of members of Planta Cadaver among their shamanic ranks, who, for your useless information, happen to be an exceptionally rare Colombian brutal death metal band that is not ridiculously fast and body-numbingly brutal. One shouldn't die of shock then in face of the fact that Yogth Sothoth qualify as the second Colombian band of that “brutal but not mindlessly brutal” kind, and instead should be sitting upright and smiling beatifically.

After a portentous incantation is uttered in the intro to “Prayer of Doom”, miraculously, the old dark Gods sitting on The Mortal Throne of Nazarene take heed and appear with their full unmitigated might, bringing with them the sweeping atmosphere of darkness, rot and terror that all but decimates the environment of the listener. Like a poisonous vortex, the music swirls repetitiously in your room propelled by an inexplicable form of diabolical energy, moving for the most part with the dogged ferocity of the South American warlords Krisiun, at other times descending into a deliberate brutal chug part similar to Mortician and even Disembowelment during the darker, excruciating ones, making you feel as if your body is already possessed and is being squeezed and asphyxiated from within by an invisible demonic force.

Buzzing angrily like Asian Giant hornets with Victor's bass enhancing the droning menace, Carlos' guitar never fails to emit an absolutely gorgeous pure death metal riff every now and then before blending into the blurry maddening chaos, fuelling it. Mauricio, with his light speed battering and excellent fills on dusty sounding drums nearly stirs up a mini-vortex of his own. The Craig Pillard-esque vocals, amorphous and almost one with the atmosphere, retain form and expression only because of the inhuman breath of Klisgor channelling and blowing them in the right direction. The suitably muddy production albeit with a low mix glues them all together to form an impermeable all-powerful sonic entity against whom no priest or holy man would dare to oppose.

Yogth Sothoth possess all the elements to create a fitting simulacrum of hell, and while just that is good enough to warrant a purchase, their dual-natured compositions won't please either the pure or brutal death metal fans as much as they would like. Despite that, their music draws you irresistibly towards it; when played, when the vortex spins into motion, it creates some kind of a void in your surroundings and helplessly pulls you towards it; it tries to greedily suck you in even though it is unable to trap your attention throughout the album.

July 20th, 2008