### Vore: Maleficus

#### 28/02/06 || Lord K Philipson

A logo that reeks of early 90’s death metal, with a gory eye as the “O” included (at least on the sticker I got). A cover that reminds you of Deicide’s “Legion” (if you’re drunk), with the addition of “The All-Seing Eye” from fucken “Lord of the rings” to the picture. A good production and a basic’n’ugly booklet… We should be in a for a treat, shouldn’t we? Or something with alot of fucken eyes everywhere…

Well, I wouldn’t go that far as to call this a “treat”, but instead apply the sentence “this is fucken decent death metal” to Vore. Let me see here… I dig this name for some reason, it must be becoz it’s been used quite often within the world of metal. Venom once released “At vore with Satan”. Bolt Thrower did their classic (not my opinion though) “Vore Master”. The Project Hate recorded a song called “The swarming of vores” on our debut. You can obviously see I’m taking funny-lessons at the moment, it is becoz I’m vored, aka “bored”. I so fucken rule it’s almost ridicolo… riducol… redicol… well, silly.

These 4 Americans smokes joints with bands like Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel (at least when they do some of their riffs), some other bands (when they create some of the slower shit) and prolly a bunch of other fucken bands when they do the rest of the material. The bass-sound on this disc really shines through here and there, and I really dig that. It ploinks ploinks out of the picture neatly every now and then, and I’m a cheap fucker to fool with those things. I dig it when bands understand that the bass should actually be noticeable in metal. Vore plays some mid-paced death metal, not completely without their own touch I might add. When we are talking mid-paced death metal you all know that we won’t get the most original shit since roastbeef, and I’m pretty damn sure that’s not their intention, and in the end I appreciate it for what it is.

Sludgy death metal with some neat doublebass-passages (check out “Misery embrace” – the best tune on the album without a doubt), half-groovy riffage (the intro to “Wrath wrought ruin” is damn decent). The only problem with Vore is that the mid-to-slow tempo used overall gets a bit boring after a while. A few short blasts placed here and there ain’t hardly enough to completely satisfy me. Vore wouldn’t suffer too bad from incorporating some more faster shit every now and then, that’s for sure. And make those faster bits last for more than 10 seconds at a time, please. But hey, they could give fuck-all about what I think (but they don’t, seing they sent me this disc) and just go along playing slugdy death metal until their heads explodes.

Fuck if I care.

Vore’s a pleasant suprise after all, and if (I refuse to mention anything about tempo again) death metal is yer glass of urin, I can’t see why you shouldn’t give these guys a chance.

After a while with this kind of music, the novelty just starts to vore off (I told you, I’m awesome today).

7 death metal penises out of fucken 10

- Information
- Released: 2005
- Label: Vore/Frozen Solid Music
- Website: www.vore.org
- Band
- Page Townsley: lead vocals, lead guitar
- John Voelker: lead vocals, rhythm guitars
- Remy Cameron: drums
- Jeremy Partin: bass

- Tracklist
- 01. Maleficus
- 02. The line that divides
- 03. Threshold of empowerment
- 04. Legion of martyrs
- 05. Misery embrace
- 06. Ashes
- 07. Wrath wrought ruin
- 08. Fall unto chaos