REVIEW: Cultus Profanum Sordes [EP] by Timeless Wounds

Bandcamp discovery time, and this time I found a heavy as hell band from Sofia, Bulgaria. This record is dark, aggressive and overall in your fucking face. Whether it be some slamming riffs or equally as slammy breakdowns, this record has it for you. In reference to the title, Cultus Profanum Sordes translates to Cultivation Pollution, and if that doesn't tell you something about how gnarly this band is, well I don't know what will.
 Instrumentally, it's slow and chuggy which is nothing too impressive, but it's absolutely formulaic to the genre. The riffs are slow as mentioned but are well positioned and executed through the whole of the EP, I'm particularly partial to the Indominus which starts out with this really gnarly chuggy riff that just makes you want to crowd kill the whole room. The basstone is nice, but where this record shines is the drums, with a really tight snare that gets me going. The double bass is also really tight and the cymbal work is phenomenal. The vocals are strong, and I get a huge No Zodiac vibe from them. There were a few spoken parts that were in Bulgarian, which flowed nicely as well, so no complaints on that end.
 Overall, this record is a solid 8/10, which was hard to give, given the repetitive nature of downtempo as a whole. Repetitive however, does not mean that it's not good and boy was this record good.

8/10
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