The very name of Full of Hell has skyrocketed through the scene in recent years for all the right reasons, and it’s with that reputation that they’ve managed to do some really great things. Even if their particular brand of extreme metal isn’t what I would find myself listening to every day, I’ve never really been able to turn myself away from a new effort of their’s when one comes around out of sheer curiosity, as if I’m watching a massive fire burn. I knew it wouldn’t be any different with their forthcoming assault, but it’s almost immediately after falling into this madness that it becomes clear that Full of Hell isn’t letting this work be the same as those that have come before it.

While the uninitiated may go into this brand new work and see virtually no difference in this work compared to anything that Full of Hell has delivered before this, especially sonically, those of us familiar with the special brand of unmitigated chaos that this band has become all but known for will detect a discernable shift even if it might be hard for us to put a finger on it at first. The core of the sound is left intact for those worrying that Full of Hell are crossing entire stylistic lines, but it’s with their trademark scathing attitude that we see “Garden of Burning Apparitions” take on a life all of its own as Full of Hell refuse to let themselves become pigeonholed into a single, specific sound with no room for experimentation or curious adventures through caustic nightmares. The twelve tracks of this just barely not 21-minute album start to see Full of Hell really lean into their death metal tendencies that we’ve seen them slowly adopt in the last few releases, but it would be a large mistake by any of us to call this a work of death metal by any account for it’s the raw entirety of “Garden of Burning Apparitions” that not only seeks to end life as we know it, but explore many of the unfortunate curiosities that we find in our modern world of shit from exploring the concept of organized religion to a deceptively seductive noise rock take that I was not expecting whatsoever from this band of all bands but I would be extremely remiss to even think that they didn’t deliver in every form.

Full of Hell has never been a band to underestimate when it comes to clever musicianship hidden under a monolithically thick layer of inpenetrable, primitive fury, but they’ve hit on another level altogether with everything that they brought forth for this utterly acidic record. Much like its predecessors, “Garden of Burning Apparitions” will surely be hailed as one of the most interesting works of the year despite how anti-commercial every bit of the sound is, but that’s always been part of the band’s fucked up charm which has yet to fail us.

“Garden of Burning Apparitions” releases on October 1st via Relapse Records!

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