Ruins, BURIAL HORDES

Emerging after a gap of five years, Greece's best kept secret Burial Hordes bring forth an outstanding slab of blackened death metal that harnesses both chaos and atmosphere in equal parts. A fearsome album right off the bat, it sees the band slipping into different dimensions only to come back with renewed anger. There is a sense of barely restrained outrage that is all too palpable in the forceful delivery but is almost invariably mitigated by dissonant atmospheric passages, occasionally even bearing shades of melancholy. Ruins is a beautifully balanced album with intuitive songwriting that never feels abrupt, and with their skillful, inextricable blend of black and death metal influences, they convey a wider range of emotions for an album this intense. It's easily one of the best albums of late in this blackened death metal spectrum. FFO: Decipher, Bølzer, Incantation, Dead Congregation, Grave Miasma, Deathspell Omega, Suffering Hour, Enshadowed

Burial Hordes Archives - NO CLEAN SINGING

Burial Hordes – Ruins (2022, CD) - Discogs

Ruins, BURIAL HORDES

The Ruins of Khara-Khoto in the middle of the Gobi Desert

Ostia – What the Bricks and Stones Tell Us – Popular Archeology

Burial Hordes

BURIAL HORDES 'Ruins' (Transcending Obscurity Records, 2023)

Ruins, BURIAL HORDES

Burial Hordes Official Home Page

Ruins, BURIAL HORDES