Tribal Gaze are a death metal band from the US and this is their second album.
Inveighing Brilliance is the 32-minute follow up to 2022’s well-received The Nine Choirs. Tribal Gaze are back, and they have brought with them enough riffs and breakdowns to fuel mosh pits for years to come.
Tribal Gaze have built an album on top of study old-school death metal foundations, reinforced with hardcore density. Inveighing Brilliance is primal and raw, assaulting the listener with its stripped back attack and daring them to stand still. It’s simple, direct, and atavistic, yet has a power that harnesses an appeal that only this sort of death metal can have.
The songs are brutal and harsh, delivering crushing riffs and steamroller groove. The pace varies across the album, as does the hostile vocal delivery, and there are a few solos to add colour, but Inveighing Brilliance is primarily all about unleashing destructive heaviness. The band know how to write a good riff, and have come armed with an arsenal of the things. I’m pleased to say that Inveighing Brilliance is largely without filler, offering up a collection of death metal tunes that don’t just hit the spot, but flatten it completely, (why ‘largely without filler’? Because there’s an extended drum solo after the final song finishes that may or may not be to your taste; I like it).
Tribal Gaze are barbaric in their application of force, and it makes for an effortlessly enjoyable record. If you’re looking for a fun, weighty, brutal slab of heaviness, then Inveighing Brilliance is for you. Fans of bands such as 200 Stab Wounds, Obituary, Sanguisugabogg, Tzompantli, Xibalba, etc. need to check this out.
Very highly recommended.
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