### Trepalium: Alchemik clockwork of disorder

#### 09/09/08 || Kampfar

Tripalium is an instrument of torture, three staked at it, and for that reason it would be a slettes not bad name for a death metal orchestra. But, as you can see, they just had to misspell it, at some point likely trying to fit a k somewhere. I’m dead sure about the k, but it could very well be that Trepalium is how the French spell Tripalium.

No one cares, I know, but every review needs a start, said Captain Obvious.

Fortunately that fella wasn’t involved in the creation of an “Alchemik clockwork of disorder”, this being a fresh breath of mint in a genre more up and more coughing up rancid, foul-smelling phlegm. Yes, I’m more or less tired of fucking death metal, still dig hundreds of bands, but for every good I find I have to go through something like thirty rather fucking shitty ones.

Poor me, kick me in balls.

When I recommended the erected monkeys known as my friends this platter, I was constantly referring to it as boogie death. Which is only partly true. It rings truer than your alarm clock at 06:00 when it comes to “Vesania” and “Sick boogie murder”, both catchier than any disease I can think of right now, but moderation aplenty is needed if this review are to become the best Trepalium ever got treated to.

“ACOD” is first and foremost a death metal album, few, though some, outside the genre will appreciate what is on offer. If they featured a faggot on vocals I’m sure the appeal would have broader, but Trepalium instead got a meaty growler, one with a sense of rhythm and groove. Not a bad choice. He hasn’t got the most distinct throat since that of Hitler, I concur, but he is fucking good anyway.

And the rest of guys are as well, sounding like a proper band rockin’ the fuck out they do. Most, or so it seems, bands rely on their drug-dealer for chemistry, this lot doesn’t. Hell, 99% of all bands attempting at medium br00tal death metal with a boogie twist and jizz-free jazz would have ended up sounding as being attacked and raped by their instruments.

“ACOD” might not be a full-fledged masterpiece, but a fucking gem it is.

8, perhaps even 8,5, out of 10

- Information
- Released: 2006
- Label: Holy Records
- Website: Trepalium’s MySpace
- Band
- Cédric Punda: vocals
- Nicolas Amossé: guitar
- Harun Demiraslan: guitar, keyboard
- Chauveau Ludovic: bass
- Sylvain Bouvier: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Decease my life
- 02. Modus operandi
- 03. Decayed emotions
- 04. Alchemik clockwork of disorder
- 05. Vesania
- 06. One breath of peace
- 07. Perversion of reality
- 08. Ritual
- 09. Psycho theme
- 10. Pulsion
- 11. Sick boogie murder
- 12. Who’s fucked up?