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Cytolysis – Surge of Cruelty Review
By Owlswald
Embracing the brutal death metal staples of extreme violence, mutilation, and gore, Cytolysis is the solo project of drummer Darren Cesca (ex-Arsis, ex-Deeds of Flesh). Temporarily breaking from his duties in Goratory and Eschaton, Cesca uses Cytolysis as an outlet to write, perform, and produce his own horror-filled material. His first offering, Portraits of Malevolence, tipped the scales firmly towards deathcore and was a competent yet unremarkable slab of sonic torture. After a five-year hiatus, Cesca emerges from the depths once more with Surge of Cruelty, hoping to follow Cytolysis’ run-of-the-mill debut with something far more malicious. But as it turns out, not much has changed.
Cytolysis remains deathcore through and through. Driven by its strong rhythmic core, the name of the game on Surge of Cruelty is consistency and groove, with songwriting that largely relies on devastating Acacia Strain-esque breakdowns, mid-tempo plods, and half-time slams. Down-tuned guitars deliver a one-dimensional backdrop of bludgeoning power chords and devilish chugs, while Cesca’s blast beats, swift kick patterns, and tight grooves twist and turn with technical precision and a mechanical pulse. His Pyrexian vocals feature an abundance of unvaried pig squeals and guttural, vomit-flavored growls that often recede into the highly compressed mix. Guest vocals—like those from Brian Forgue (Syphilic) on “A Blood Soaked Offering,” or Mac Smith (Eschaton, Apogean) on “Devout Sacrifice”1—offer a welcome contrast to Cesca’s conventional delivery, injecting much-needed dynamism through their soiled, vulgar-sounding roars. Still, even with its technically sound components, Cesca assembles Surge of Cruelty into a predictable and ultimately monotonous eleven tracks.
Surge of Cruelty suffers from a structural monotony that makes its forty-four minutes feel sluggish and overlong. Cytolysis’ over-reliance on a limited playbook of chunky breakdowns and trudging grooves ultimately bleeds the album of its energy. Rather than building or evolving, the record’s flow feels like Cesca stitched similar-sounding tracks together. This predictability is immediately evident on opener “Your Slow Demise.” Embodying a run-of-the-mill brutality, the track builds on a foundation of lumbering mid-tempo chuggery and grinding slowdowns amidst Cesca’s squeals. Attempts at variation—like the choo-choo whistling guitar bends or the spells of dissonant guitars—lack supremacy and fall flat. Elsewhere, tracks like “Mark of the Demons,” “Surge of Cruelty,” and “Tribal Savagery” are packed with formulaic rhythms, low-end chugs, and tired-sounding riffs. Thankfully, the instrumental “Ritual Carnage” provides a moment of separation with its buzzing bass, pounding drums, and throat singing, but its effect is short-lived, as Cesca quickly pushes Surge of Cruelty right back into its old patterns. While the album’s shorter songs (“Innocence is Raped,” “A Blood Soaked Offering,” and “Consenting Brood”) fare better, too many tracks feel uninspired and aimless, lacking the quality material to justify their duration.
Moments of technical flair provide Surge of Cruelty’s most engaging passages, as Cytolysis explores the boundaries of its deathcore mold. Cesca’s quick double bass bursts in “Mark of the Demons” or the accented ride pattern in the title track provide subtle dynamics and a brief sense of variation. “Devout Sacrifice” stands out as one of the album’s strongest tracks, thanks to its numerous twists and turns and its tight, punishing groove that holds my attention despite its whistling guitar bends. Other notable material includes the syncopated intro riff of “Innocence is Raped” and the refreshingly fast tempo and dark atmosphere of “Hung from the Rafters”—a welcome change of pace that unfortunately arrives far too late. Making matters worse, the album’s production—which is compressed to hell—magnifies Surge of Cruelty’s homogeneity, stripping the material of any life and hindering Cytolysis’ moments of creativity.
My time with Surge of Cruelty began with hope but ended in disappointment. Cesca’s ability to single-handedly write, perform, and produce Cytolysis’ material is undoubtedly impressive, but Surge of Cruelty buckles under the weight of its own monotony and its sterile mix. While guest vocalists inject some much-needed dynamism and moments of technicality provide creative sparks, they are too infrequent to save an album that ultimately leaves little to hold onto after its best moments pass. Surge of Cruelty is a missed opportunity, but Cesca certainly has the talent to produce something far more compelling in the future.
Rating: Disappointing
DR: 4 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Comatose Music
Websites: darrencesca.weebly.com | facebook.com/darren.cesca
Releases Worldwide: August 8th, 2025
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Symphobia – Hideously Traumatic Review
By Alekhines Gun
Another day, another fresh debut by a slab of young hopefuls. Today’s offering comes by way of Indonesia in the form of trio Symphobia, dropping their first LP Hideously Traumatic after a sole self-titled demo the year before. At a concise two songs and sporting some charmingly ghoulish artwork, that demo was a vile little slab of promising violence, which leaned more into the modern slam trappings of Submerged than the usual brutal death proper Indonesia is known for. No member turnover and a short gap between releases imply a band with a musical vision and an eagerness to slot themselves into the next generation of woe-bringers; do they offer enough to get you back to therapy?
Symphobia have crafted a monument to brutal death of all varieties and walks of life. Trimming down the more overt slam clichés in the production of their demo (particularly the outlandish ping-pong snare) allows for a more matured1 take, walking a tightrope between solid deathly compositions and neanderthalic bludgeoning. Vocalist Jossi Bima does a dead ringer of an Angel Ochoa impression, but a talent for vocal phrasing (and vocal silence) means he actually adds to the percussive oomph of the riffs. (“Scattered”, “Convulsively”) Humam Aliy is a beast on the drums, working a limited set of ingredients into a well-concocted aural meal, with excellently placed sixteenth-note fills and masterfully selected double bass to give the illusion of dynamics and pacing even as the whole of the album never really lets up. The bass2 consistently makes itself felt with shreddage and twangy highlights, adding girth to an absolute smorgasbord of riffs.
Much like waves add texture to an otherwise flat and bland ocean, Hideously Truamatic offers a sense of the nuanced differences in brutal death strains of DNA to add personality to what threatens to be an overly homogenous listen. Do you like Misery Index? “Convulsively” has you covered. Do you think War of Attrition is the best Dying Fetus album?3 “Heinous” sports a riff worthy of a lost B-side from that era. The fingerprints of Pathology, Suffocation, Internal Bleeding, modern Pyrexia, and Cephalotripsy permeate the album, with the glue from highlight to highlight running through the eternal assault of …And Time Begins era Decrepit Birth. While Symphobia begin in familiar form, each time you think you’ve heard the best the album has to offer, the next song manages to come out swinging with a steel chair to top whatever offensive groove or thunderous breakdown came before it. Dodik Bhre offers up one riff-craft lesson after another, with a surprising emphasis on the occasional trebly runs instead of all-bass-all-bottom-end tropes. Songs like “Scattered” and “Abominable” stretch beyond the typical haze of blast beats and powerchord abuse, touching on the most straightforward moments of Defeated Sanity while lurching into a Disgorge-ian sense of mercilessness.
The only negative on such a balls-out assault of this caliber is a common one: the shadow of ones peers. Symphobia have grasped the ingredients of what makes all these other bands great, and distilled their essence into a blender of an album where the listener is tossed in to get slapped in the face with one meaty chunk after another. However, Hideously Traumatic comes across as a highlight reel of various stylings without forming into a cohesive identity for the band themselves. This is a love letter to the foulest and most pit-inducing of aural violence, and the letter is written in excellent handwriting and high-quality paper. I believe the best is yet to come, however, and if they can master the art of wielding their influences into a distinct final offering rather than being a mega-high grade tribute band, they will be ready to drop a slab of carnage to stand alongside the Brodiquins and Devourments of the world.
Just when I thought I was done with brutal death for a bit, Symphobia came out of nowhere with hammers and chainsaws to take my already abused ears to even more dire straits. Indonesia can be proud of its newest offspring, which continues to solidify the country’s reputation for a flourishing scene. That Hideously Traumatic reminds greatly of genre giants is hardly the worst flaw in the world. For now, seekers of euphoria-inducing savagery should find a high worthy of their time, with some truly traumatic moments indeed.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Comatose Music
Websites: Official Facebook | Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: July 11th, 2025
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