Iniquitous Savagery – Edifice of Vicissitudes (Review)

This is the second album from UK death metallers Iniquitous Savagery.

Containing a current/ex-member of Laceration, Party Cannon, and Gendo Ikari, Iniquitous Savagery play brutal death metal. It’s been a long time since 2015’s Subversions of the Psyche, but now the band are back – with a new singer – to cause carnage and mayhem with 31 minutes of new material.

I like an album that starts with no fanfare, and Edifice of Vicissitudes gets right down to business. The songs operate within the brutal death metal style, and have a technical edge in places that allows them to attack with sharper blades alongside the blunt brutality.

The songs are clinical and precise. This is merciless, unfeeling butchery given sonic form. Iniquitous Savagery’s delivery is right and controlled, steering the music’s gruesome proclivities ever forward, channelling its lust for mayhem into concise songs that bludgeon and pummel. The recording is good, lending the album the requisite weighty heaviness, while also allowing space to breathe and for an organic aspect to permeate into the music’s barbaric character.

Edifice of Vicissitudes doesn’t reinvent the wheel, (although the ending of Narcotic Exsanguination was unexpected), it just smashes it flat and stomps the remains into the ground. It’s a record that’s satisfying and enjoyable to listen to, especially if you’re into the mood for controlled brutality.

Recommend for fans of Carnophage, Decrepit Birth, Deeds of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Devourment, and Suffocation.