Mordloch - 2022 (2022)
By Flork (contact)
Mordloch came to fruition as a result of ex-members of Afterlife, Propaganda and Blinded joining forces in their damage-inflicting assault on the ear-drums and resulting aneurisms of the brain. If you like it loud, then this is for sure the album you’ve been waiting for. It’s 2022 after all, or the new 1984, since the Orwellian and dystopian future has finally arrived and Mordloch is right here to guide us through it.
The foursome from the Czech Republic (I still find it hard to say Czechia) pound the listener hard with a heavy battery of bar chords, bass, and bass drums right from the get-go with Šachta (Elevator Shaft), a 2-and-a-half-minute track of epic porpotions. I mean, it’s fast and slow and gets only better with the raw rage of whoever is singing, whether it’s Marek, Kuba, or Bučaj since all three are credited with the vocals. But this doesn’t make any difference since they all sound amazing and I doubt they’d have problems filling-in for each other if any of them ever failed to show up at a gig. It’s death metal after all, with heavily-accented and far-from-subtle hints of core and grind.
I have to say at this point that I love this album. Take Oceán Krve (Ocean of blood) for example. This is a heavy, rock-out tune with booming beats that evoke images of war and assault. I know this, or at least I think I do, since I imagine war throughout the entire track. I’m hardly surprised at the air-raid sirens wailing at the end. But was the album written about the war in Ukraine? It’s hard to say, yet there are so many allusions to it, especially with song titles such as Pouta zlosti (Handcuffs of Evil), Z Trosek mest (Debris of Cities) and Do rakví (Into Coffins). The last two tracks I just mentioned end the album just as it begins: with a heavy dose of vocals and instruments that even sent my desktop into a seizure. Fortunately, I had just saved everything before the computer went haywire and I was forced to shut it all down and reboot, much like the world needs to do at the moment.
As I wrote earlier, I love this album and think that 2022 (the album I mean) is worth listening to over and over. The production is first class, although I can’t see any credit to whomever produced it. Hats off to them regardless, you made an amazing effort of bringing Mordloch‘s larger than life sound to one of the bleakest years in recent memory.
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