This is the third album from Invultation, a solo death metal band from the US.
This is some nasty stuff. Feral Legion is a 37-minute bestial war metal album that assaults the listener with its death metal bite and sharp blackened claws. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill album though, and Invultation might surprise you.
Delivered with a more technical approach than is the norm for the style, and bolstered by a surprisingly clean production that allows you to hear all of the teeth as they bite down on your neck, Feral Legion destroys the competition with contemptuous ease. It’s scathingly hostile and bleeds sinister aggression and hyperviolence from every enraged pore. Each song is a swirling maelstrom of harsh riffs and brutal drums. The singer growls like a monster and screams like a daemon; both styles are extremely well-performed.
Feral Legion is unrelentingly brutal and unfriendly, but it’s not one-dimensional. Much like the technicality and the production values, also unusual is the level of detail in the songs when it comes to songwriting; the artist behind Invultation understands dynamics, structuring, pace, and payoff, and the songs reflect this. Of course, I should point out that this is all relative; Feral Legion would in no way be considered easy listening for most people, and still very much belongs in the bestial war metal subgenre. It’s a fiendishly foul and savagely malevolent record. However, within this, the artist behind Invultation has created something more advanced and developed than what is usually encountered. Sophisticated bestial war metal? It sounds like an oxymoron, and it is really. But, when you listen to Feral Legion, and once you get past the walls of sheer ferocity, you’ll discover a record with much to draw you back to it over time.
So, let Feral Legion work you up into a devastating frenzy, and prepare to unleash Hell.
Essential listening for connoisseurs of underground extremity.
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