The Furor - Impending Revelation

Australian band The Furor comprises the creative mind of Disaster and this his fourth release of blackened death metal is pretty accomplished stuff. The multicoloured cover art isn't your normal style for this music depicting various abominations and sordid shenanigans with angels and demons if you look close enough. The soft tones that blanket the listener on the opener 'Hammer Heirarchy' is very like the soundtrack on an old hammer horror movie right up until the scorching riff that burns molten lava into your soul bursts forth. Similar to Dark Funeral, the riff is piercing and the blasting is chaotic yet well controlled with punctuated time changes that work exceptionally well.

The drumming is often manic as 'Inferno Fortification' demonstrates initially, but settles down as the riff and melody gathers momentum and more or less catches up. Crazy, demented and wild the tune fluctuates from Satyricon like melody to barbaric blasting mania of Marduk. I thoroughly enjoyed 'Summoned Obscurity' with the subtle groove embedded into the riffing yet typical of black metal it is supremely vicious as the lead break is like old Slayer, and I mean old as in their debut hinting at a black thrash approach occasionally. Calming their listener  first on 'Corpse Eclipse' the tune is murderously fast once the vehement blast arrives. The switches in pace are unbalancing but make this release exciting, as 'Black Sorceror Of Sadism' goes berzerk. The controlled pandemonium is utterly frantic like Marduk or Mayhem on "Wolfs Lair Abyss", bordering total mania.

Surprisingly there is a cover tune before the closer as 'Show No Mercy' is given a thorough bruising rendition and sticks to the original formula of the song though some blasting is inserted just in case you've not heard enough and it works with the song but the vocals are too harsh for this tune really. Closing the album is 'The Pentagram Prevails', a much slower more involved track it possesses good dynamics and sits aside from the rest of the album. It does venture into the hyper blasting phase way in and in some respect this song is the most demented of all, as the whole album is ended on a blazing inferno of drums and riffing. As with most Australian extreme metal acts they have a way of making their albums sound like Satan himself was twiddling the knobs and The Furor are no different whatsoever. Excellent stuff.


  1. Hammer Hierarchy
  2. Inferno Fortification
  3. Summoned Obscurity
  4. Seven Trumpets - Ceaseless Armageddon
  5. Corpse Eclipse
  6. Diabolic Liberation
  7. Black Sorcerer of Sadism
  8. Show No Mercy (cover Slayer)
  9. The Pentagram Prevails


Self released
Reviewer: twansibon
Aug 26, 2014

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