This is the debut album from US one-woman black/death metal band Gun Girl.
What’s this? Another project by the same artist that brought us the amazing Lust Hag? Sign me up! Vengeant Siege of Unholy Divinity is 24 minutes of ugliness and mayhem. It’s harsh and unforgiving, and just wants to destroy.
The Gun Girl formula is a war metal one. The music smashes together black and death metal, drowns it in grindcore intensity, and then throws everything in your face with pulverising force. This is an exercise in raw bestial deathgrind aggression that’s scathingly potent.
Despite the sheer barbaric violence on display across Vengeant Siege of Unholy Divinity, this is not a fully one-dimensional assault. After all, the songwriting skills that help propel Lust Hag above the competition are on show once more across the album, only this time they’re pressed into the service of brutality and carnage. It’s not without the occasional splash of colour either, usually from a surprisingly forlorn lead, and there’s a dynamic energy here that’s very moreish. The music may be driven by speed and hatred, but it is in possession of a certain hard-to-define infectious quality that will keep you returning again and again to get your head caved in by these eight bruisers.
The artist behind Lust Hag has once again impressed. Long may she continue to beat us into submission with her work.
This is definitely one for fans of bands such as Antichrist Siege Machine, Archgoat, Black Witchery, Eggs of Gomorrh, Primitive Warfare, Revenge, Watchmaker, Weregoat, etc.
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