CRUENTUS - END WITHOUT END (BLACKENED DEATH METAL, KVLT UND KAOS PRODUCTIONS, RELEASED 3/10/25, REVIEW)
CRUENTUS return with forthcoming album End Without End due for release on October 3rd, via Kvlt Und Kaos Productions. When you start listening to the LP, it will soon become apparent that it's something different and is a balanced album. It's intelligently composed music, which hopefully receives the credit and recognition, and not easily passed by. It's not the usual tropes, obviously the music hooks you in, then you can see that there are different concepts, which adds to the satisfying feeling experienced when listening. Vocally, CRUENTUS doesn't sound like a haunted paper bag in the cellar angry that it couldn't watch the latest episode of Knitting Watch with Auntie Fanny. Vocals are raw, aggressive, but not to the point with some bands where it does indeed sound like that angry flying bag with the air passing through, I guess washing machine production.
Musically, End Without End is extremely balanced and structured to offer fast, medium, and slow parts to help build the transition into heavier extreme sections of a song, or to pause and play at a decreased pace to help generate the mood. It provides End Without End with a good level of atmosphere and the album can run like a dark fantasy soundtrack. We have everything from very fast extreme tracks with superb riffs, drums, and vocals, and a little old school fury drawing from thrash. There are also melodic introspective sections reinforcing the dark fantasy feel experienced whilst listening. This could only be achieved with patience and considerable time taken ensuring the tracks were structured in sequence, and arranged accordingly supported by strong audio production. The aggression and heaviness also hasn't been sacrificed during this process.
Closing: CRUENTUS'S End Without End is a highly enjoyable listen, it's fast, extreme, heavy, but also has some different elements to help it stand out. It's both engaging and immersive, and the triple prong approach of using death, black, and thrash metal to present their concept works incredibly well. Not an album to ignore, nor one you will regret. Bog is already interested to see what the guys do next.
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