out now: Kaligula -- blasting, brutal death metal from Indonesia

Metal Archives shows a debut album from 2012, and then there was an EP in 2013. If the information on Metal Archives is correct, it looks like there was studio silence since 2013. They have that thick guitar tone that invites you to move fast and to try to keep up with the speed. They could probably play tech-death and be happy doing that, but they pull back from getting all technical, although there is an abundance of fast-finger string action, which, by the way, manages to provide a bit of catchiness that is detectable even on a first listen. The drumming is what the fans of the genre want, and the vocals are on point for the speedy interpretation of extreme metal in this style. Track number five provides about one minute of meditation-yoga-hallucination sounds before jumping into some heavy chugging. It seems like an interlude (or a necessary interlude to hit the 30-minute mark for the album). Track number six returns everything to the brutality. Track number 10 begins melodically, showing a glimpse of another side to their sound. Then, as a surprise, they make the whole song that way, without changing it into something else. It ends up as a mellow way to finish the album. Thus, this is brutal metal, with a couple of breathers thrown in for good measure. At this point, the band is keeping both sides separate from each other. The brutal is brutal, and the little bit of melodic-mellow elements are there as an appendix, without yet confronting or relating to each other. -Metal Bulletin Zine

Kaligula

Doctrination Of Atisamdha

Brutal Mind

10 November 2020

Doctrination of Atisamdha by Kaligula