Maniaco by Maniaco
NO CLEAN SINGING:
MANIACO (Chile)
I’ll forewarn you that this collection is going to be a very twisty and turny trip. To begin the adventure I’ve chosen the second album by this death metal band from Osorno, which was released on April Fool’s Day. It’s self-titled and follows their debut album Obscuras aguas del caos by a long seven years.
If you check out Metal-Archives for the band you’ll see a listing of these themes: “Madness, Desolation, Death, Extermination”. Apart from the lyrical subject matter, those words also provide a pretty good preview of the music.
Sounds of spine-tingling horror provide the album’s prelude, and what follows is a mad and mauling experience that in itself has plenty of twists and turns. While monstrous, gravel-gargling gutturals roar out the words and the larynx gets blown out by hair-on-fire howls, the band take turns beating the shit out of the listener and tying their brains in knots.
Which is to say that while the songs are brutally jolting and punishing, the guitars constantly go off at high speed in demented, channel-separated directions — swirling and screeching, darting like swallows and seizing up in violent tremolo-picked spasms, or burrowing through rock like high-speed tunneling machines.
The sounds are grim and grisly, but also spawn visions of demon dervishes who’ve been cooped up in hell long enough to lose what shreds of sanity they might once have had (“While My Body Laid Asleep” and “I Kill for Lust” being prime examples of that, but definitely not the only ones). The rhythm section are also prone to rapid variations and bursts of their own instrumental fireworks, as digressions from their primary missions of thuggery and obliteration.
Moreover, when you least expect it (as in the second track “Conarium” or the album closer), the bottom drops out and you find yourself wandering through a weirdly twisted instrumental diversion that rings and weaves, or (as in “Repudiation, Excess & Monotony“) trudging through a thick trough of viscera. “Madness, Desolation, Death, Extermination” indeed….
(The fantastically ghastly cover art is by Joan Rigo.)
Read the complete review:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2023/04/08/seen-and-heard-on-a-saturday-maniaco-eastwood-chadhel-delyria-man-as-plague-izrod/
Tracklist
| 1. | Marching Towards Hell’s Gates | 4:03 |
| 2. | Conarium | 4:01 |
| 3. | Undead’s Resurrection | 2:57 |
| 4. | Repudiation, Excess & Monotony | 2:41 |
| 5. | Mental Putrefaction | 3:14 |
| 6. | While My Body Laid Asleep | 3:23 |
| 7. | Humiliated, Mutilated | 3:38 |
| 8. | I Kill For Lust | 3:54 |
Credits
Second full length album by the brutal death metal band Maniaco (Osorno, Chile)
Additional information:
Album cover artwork by Joan Rigo:
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Album cover layout design by César Peredo:
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alfredo Torres at Greyhound Recotding Studios:
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Lineup:
Marcos Pérez - Guitars
Felix Llefi - Guitars, Vocals
Mauricio Reyes - Drums
Alfredo Torres - Bass, Vocals
