Album Review: Nihilist Death Cult – Death To All Tyrants (Self Released)

Formed in 2018 by Nick Sagias on bass and vocals (Tribe of Pazuzu, Soulstorm, Overthrow, ex-Pestilence) and his brother John Sagias on drums (Soulstorm, Abyss) along with guitarists Ethan Bolduc (Jaww, Abyss), and Rick Kowalski (Soulstorm, Bound By Defiance), Toronto’s Nihilist Death Cult will be unleashing their debut album entitled ‘Death To All Tyrants’ on December 2nd, 2022.

Get in. Fuck shit up. Get out. That is the mantra of noise mongers, Nihilist Death Cult. Delivering a short and sharp shock to the system with Death to All Tyrants. An album that clocks in at just a little over 14-minutes in length. An album of frenzied hardcore death punk.

If you want to feel like you’ve had your senses kicked out of you, then you can’t go wrong with Death to All Tyrants. From the moment Follow the Money kicks off, the brain is Nihilist Death Cult’s football and they are hoofing it with all their might.

Creating a disorientating level of carnage with Hunting for Prey and Obey & Consume, Nihilist Death Cult keep things fast and frantic. The brash and brutish instrumentation meeting a wave of growling and guttural vocals. It will make you feel hot and sweaty in a cold room.

Maybe that’s the sickness of this noise infecting the body though as Wake Up! delivers an emphatic statement. It’s then followed by a pair of gurning and grinning monstrosities in the form of the title track and Imperium. Before the longest tracks on the album (they both the two-minute mark!), Imperium and Is This Progress? come along.

So, what do Nihilist Death Cult do with the extra seconds they’ve given themselves? Bring about even more destructive hardcore death crossed with punk fire. The goal of smashing the senses into oblivion has well and truly been completed, all that’s left is for Nihilist Death Cult to stick the boot in one more time. Which they with undeniable glee on the final track You Get What You Deserve.

Yes, we bloody well do.

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