Void Column "The Chasmic Death / Quiescence" CD

Tracks 1-3 "The Chasmic Death" demo.
Tracks 4-6 "Quiescence" demo.

CD compilimg the 2 demos of this heavy old school Death Metal band from Canada.
CD compilation of both demos together released by triumvirate of evil (colombia)

Six tracks of carnal passages of death and miasmic whisperings from Quebec, Canada. Triumvirate of Evil release limited to 500 copies.

Death Doom metal in the deepest form.

Last year was very excited about Void Column’s first demo tape, ‘The Chasmic Death’. Now this anonymous entity returns with its second demo tape, ‘Quiescence (Demo II)’, released through Mouth Of Madness Tapes from Canada.

As is so often the case, I do agree with Ricardo. The sound on the debut demo was so grimy and overwhelming, you just have to love it. That same sound has continued on this new demo tape. Only minimal shifts in sound and tone can be detected. While the vocals are still ultra-deep and heavy, the guitar sound seems a bit lighter and the riffs are a bit faster, adding a bit more dynamics to the overall sound. This is by no means to say that the depth has disappeared from Void Column’s game. These three songs give a somewhat more complete picture of Void Column’s musical capabilities, a song like ‘Paralysis’ is a bit more in line with ‘The Chasmic Death’-demo while the title track is an example of that somewhat “lighter” approach – if you can speak of such a term at all when talking about a band like Void Column. However, people who were charmed by the first work need not worry at all, so Ricardo can also go back to sleep peacefully. Void Column is still the musical equivalent of the abyssal darkness from which the all-engulfing emptiness swallows you whole.

The name VOID COLUMN is really new on the map of Metal. Based in the Quebec area, these Canadians entered the arena last year with the demo tape “The Chasmic Death”, followed by a second demo “Quiescence” this year. Now both demo recordings were released as one EP on Colombian Triumvirate Of Evil Records. And with great justice, I think. These six malevolent and unruly eruptions of Doom Death Metal are surely not a reinvention of the genre. But they are among the most malicious bands of the genre. Extremely tight, awesomely raw and ultimately fierce songs like ‘Cave Dwellers’ or ‘Hollowed Out Graves’ from the first demo are a real blood feast for those who like their Death Metal the brutal way. And the songs from the “Quiescence” demo do not only take the same line but they are at least as great. Especially the completely annihilating ‘Apparitions (Tenebrous Embodiment Of Grief)’ is an absolute killer of a Death Metal song. Those of you who like their Death Metal raw and bloody will surely have a lot of fun with VOID COLUMN and “The Chasmic Death / Quiescence”. 

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