“Vdelygmia” is the second release and first full-length by Edinburgh’s Chestcrush, the solo project by Evangelos Vasilakos .
The Greek-born musician has recently published his first demo that
received praises from underground metal community and was then
physically released by two European labels and sold out quickly
afterwards. On this demo, Chestcrush presented their unique and crushing
style of Blackened Death Metal and Grindcore, influenced by raging Old
School Black Metal and a shattering Sludge / Post Metal. And now the
time has come for the world to witness “Vdelygmia” in its utterly
terrifying yet fascinating might.
On “Vdelygmia” Chestcrush
reduces melodic influence on a necessary amount, and sets its focus on
total sonic annihilation of a listener with vast and severe arsenal of
sound weaponry of cover bombing blast beats, napalm burning guitar riffs
and blood chilling war cries. Nine anthems of terror and hate lyrically
devoted to coping with own mental and physical health tragedies (the
band name chosen for a reason) and unbearable abhorrence to the current
political situation in Evangelos motherland Greece.
Title “Vdelygmia”
is a Greek word originally spelled “ Βδελυγμία“ which means
“abomination”, “filth” and “repulsion” of extreme levels and can be used
both to define the feeling and a person, who is sorely corrupted and
depraved. And this title completely reflects the musical part of the
album which is so beautifully disgusting, violent, horrifyingly brutal
and stunningly ugly as a nearly perfect Blackened Death Metal /
Grindcore album can be.
Release credits:
Evangelos Vasilakos – Compositions, guitars, bass, lyrics, programming
Thomas Blanc – Vocals (Thomas has sang for Helioss, Celestial Swarm among others)
Krzysztof Klingbein – Drums (Krzysztof has played for Vader, Hate, Deathspawn among others)
Front cover and inner cover by PLA.G.U.E
Skull by CVSPE
Design by Aleh Zielankievic
Press clips:
"The massive riffs all but swirl themselves around you in chaos."
"Feeling unsettled but you don't have the gall to change it or turn it off"
-Purgatory Reviews
"Fusing elements of Black Metal and Sludge into the mix to make something nightmarish and heavy"
"Black metal malevolence before erupting into death metal chaos"
-Musipedia Of Metal
"Beautifully guttural and gloriously brutal"
"Ugly, disturbing and depraved"
"The band's name does the music justice, this is crushing your very bones!"
"This is a violence you can feel, 4 quick tracks that just keep hitting till the end"
- Independent Metal Reviews
"Τhe weight of their music will crush your mind and soul"
Band links:
Past features:
VM Underground zine - https://www.vm-underground.com/review/chestcrush-demo-june-2020-demo/
Transcended Music Blog - https://www.transcendedmusic.de/2021/02/demos-from-the-vault-11-unembalmed-morgued-pitbul-summoner-chestcrush/
Death By Hammer Zine - https://death-by-hammer.blogspot.com/search/label/Chestcrush
Independent Metal Reviews - https://www.facebook.com/Independent-METAL-Reviews-102335898393089/
The Metal Gamer Bloghttps://themetalgamerblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/albums-of-the-month-august-2/ (this is just a mention)
Musipedia Of Metal
Purgatory reviews – https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNv_6upIqi/
Metal Trenches YouTube - https://youtu.be/fZYw0V9ViiU?t=636
Metalnoise.net - https://metalnoise.net/2020/08/review-demo-by-chestcrush
Ken’s Death Metal Crypt Youtube - https://youtu.be/wecmP6fnN0w?t=253