Artist: Depravity
Title: Grand Malevolence
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Cat #: TOR104LP
Release Year: 2020
Duration: Album
Format: Vinyl
Packaging Type: Gatefold Sleeve
Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl

These Depravity LPs are available in five spectacular colour variants, and come in a sturdy gatefold packaging with metallic effect all over with UV lamination and embossing done in parts too. These are limited to 75 numbers in each variation.

Grand Malevolence by Australian Band Depravity is a punishing, unrelentingly intense listen. Throughout the duration of the 11 tracks, there is absolutely no point in which you can relax and try to assimilate the album. This is brutal technical death metal at its zenith. Unapologetically uncompromising, Depravity have released an album that wants to give you an absolute battering!

Vocally, Jamie Kay absolutely nails each and every track. His barking, guttural delivery carries many of the songs on his death metal larynx. As can be the case with Death Metal albums, it is sometimes difficult to ascertain when some songs end and others begin. Distinguishing between the riffs can be problematic and, alas, Grand Malevolence, are occasionally guilty of this. The main exception to this is the magnificently named ‘Cantankerous Butcher’, a song that hints at just how good this album could have been.

Recommended if you like: WomBath, Pyrexia, Hideous Divinity, Cenotaph, Deviant Process

Track Listing:
1. Indulging Psychotic Thoughts
2. Grand Malevolence
3. Invalid Majesty
4. Cantankerous Butcher
5. Trophies Of Inhumanity
6. Castrate The Perpetrators
7. The Coming Of The Hammering
8. Barbaric Eternity
9. Hallucination Aflame
10. Epitome Of Extinction
11. Ghosts In The Void