### Souledge: Blood has no limit

#### 04/08/09 || Kampfar

Pablo Escobar, cocaine and guerrilla, now that’s how you sum up Colombia. Or it used to be, but since I’m trying to be as offensive as possible, all the time, I will not moderate my insanely provocative claim one bit. I know, pure fucking wowz! Anywayz, fuck you all, what I have on the menu today is something of a rarity. Blah, it’s not that exciting, I won’t be truly intrigued before we get shit sent to us from Mars, so I’ll cut to the bone already.

Souledge is a Colombian death metal orchestra, a competent one, and they didn’t ship us their music. I so wish they, and other quality unknowns like ‘em, would start doing just that. I’ve mentioned it before, and I’ll probably do it again, but I am truly fucking amazed by the amount of pure, unadulterated bullcrap finding its way to this fine site of ours. Let it be known, once and for all, and fucking again, that if you are up to goth pop, rock&blues, power metal, progressive shit crap, blah, blah, blah, do try another address. Forever.

Alrighty then, time to justify all that drivel with some proper reviewing.

Death fucking metal, now that sounds a bit childish, but is anyhow a really rather fitting way of describing Souledge. It’s burly, blasty, violency shit they’re up to, all which happen to be the very ingredients death metal should be made of. Exclusively. Nowadays, of course, the concept of death is so watered down, not sporting clean vocals alone is enough to earn you the status as horrendously brutal. Not quite, but if you don’t get my drift I’d very much like to knee-tackle you in the face. Repeatedly.

Fucking hell, yet more drivel, but since I’m not employed in the sorry business I unsurprisingly and unkindly ask you to fuck off and die. Seriously, take your stupid family with you and fuck off to wonderland in haste.

When it comes to raging fury and intense hate, Souledge can’t compete with me. Or Kill The Client. Or Insect Warfare. Or Vomitory. Or any other ballistic hate-squad out there. But, they are fucking on to something – they namely got skills, energy and passion. And, “Blood has no limit” doesn’t exactly sound like shit either. Sure thing, it could’ve sounded better, but this very fuckface happen to enjoy their really rather unpolished approach regardless of anything but extreme tinnitus. Trust me, so wouldn’t have been the case if oomph and punch wasn’t part of the equation.

Eat shit, plonker.

Before I explain what keeps me from handing out a higher score, I’ll spend some words on the vocalist. Simple really, what we’re dealing with here is a less burly version of that dude in Iniquity. Huh?!? Iniquity? Yes, and even if you aren’t familiar with the collection of burly Danes no longer together I’m still spot on like a bullet to your head.

Fuck you.

Okidoki, the main reason I didn’t hand out more points than I did below somewhere, what a shit sentence, is because Souledge a bit too often resort to what I think of as auto-pilot songwriting. What I’m saying is that from circa half-way through, and throughout, “Blood has no limit” simply isn’t as exciting as it was before. And, a question to the band this, why don’t you sport more of those fucking excellent solos? It would liven shit up immensely, you know. At least now you do. Fucking add some when yer blasting as well, for it will definitively notch up the intensity quite a bit. Think Slayer.

So, “Blood has no limit” is a competent piece of Colombian death in the end not very amazing. But, and this is important, they are closer to fantastic than craptastic.

- Information
- Released: 2006
- Label: Brutalized Records
- Website: www.souledgeorder.com
- Band
- Diego Aristizabal: vocals
- Adrian Holguin: guitar
- Andrés Gonzalez: bass
- Juan David Sanchez: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. No life
- 02. Blood has no limit
- 03. Demons hunting
- 04. Addicted to flesh
- 05. Insane breed
- 06. Hate effect
- 07. Toxic control
- 08. Human thought prototypes
- 09. Infernal ground
- 10. God of nowhere