Metal Storm logo
Malthusian - Below The Hengiform [EP]



6.2 | 17 votes |
Release date: 6 April 2015
Style: Black metal, Death metal

Owners:

4 have it
3 want it


01. The Gasless Billows
02. Slouching Equinox
03. Forms Become Vapor

Additional info
Released on casette, CD and vinyl by Invictus Productions.

Guest review by
Alex F
Rating:
5.8
So much potential wasted. So much promise broken. These were my initial and sustained thoughts of Below The Hengiform. Coming off the colossal demo from 2013 appropriately titled MMXIII, I had so much hope for Malthusian's future. The demo was packed with intricate and complex songwriting without sacrificing the visceral chaos that they so expertly crafted. Instead of an expansion on that magnificence, what we are presented with on this EP is bland and derivative.

Read more ››
published 06.11.2015 | Comments (3)

Poaching another Fenriz-Approved, stream it here.

wormdrink414's picks | More picks ››
Thumbs up: Marcel Hubregtse
Bandcamp music player

Found in 3 lists
Top lists



Comments

Comments: 19   Visited by: 130 users
06.03.2015 - 01:42
Rating: 6
mz

These guys are added? cool.
----
Giving my ears a rest from music.
Loading...
11.03.2015 - 03:04
Rating: 6
Alex F
Slick Dick Rick
Loading...
11.03.2015 - 03:13
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
After about 10 spins I still don't know what to think of this e.p.
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

Loading...
11.03.2015 - 03:14
Fearmeister
Account deleted
Written by Alex F on 11.03.2015 at 03:04

Forms Become Vapour is streaming over here. Everyone go listen to it right now


Sounds like cavern-core 101.

Not too surprised since you and mz always tend overhype that shit
Loading...
11.03.2015 - 03:20
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Guest on 11.03.2015 at 03:14

Written by Alex F on 11.03.2015 at 03:04

Forms Become Vapour is streaming over here. Everyone go listen to it right now


Sounds like cavern-core 101.

Not too surprised since you and mz always tend overhype that shit



yet you tend to overhype anything on I Voidhanger
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

Loading...
11.03.2015 - 03:28
Fearmeister
Account deleted
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 11.03.2015 at 03:20

yet you tend to overhype anything on I Voidhanger


Not really? I just like the feeling of putting up a non-site album on the rec thread.
Loading...
11.03.2015 - 22:08
Rating: 6
mz

I had heard only one track of this and was not as impressed as I expected.
----
Giving my ears a rest from music.
Loading...
13.03.2015 - 05:33
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Written by mz on 11.03.2015 at 22:08

I had heard only one track of this and was not as impressed as I expected.


The consequences of overhyping.
----
Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
Loading...
13.03.2015 - 06:16
Lit.
Account deleted
I wasn't even impressed with the supposedly great demo so I'm not even gonna bother.
Loading...
06.04.2015 - 19:05
Rating: 9
flightoficarus
Stamp Tramp
Not as readily "accessible" as their debut, but by the second and third listen I was hooked. Somewhere between the ugly, but catchy, hooks of Lord Mantis and harrowing, technical death of Ulcerate. This is Portal trying to write a pop song. Stellar drumming with plenty of sudden changes, bending and discordant guitar, guttural death howls and blackened retches. This is good stuff, so give it a couple spins before making a decision. If it takes more than four of this short EP and you still don't dig it, more probably won't change your mind.

Full review HERE
----
Daily underground metal recommendations at Metal Trenches.
Watch metal content on the Metal Trenches YouTube Channel.
Loading...
14.04.2015 - 22:17
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
I don't know, some chaos, behemot clone rip of, just lame drumming, bassing,. and growling, music what I dont like
----
Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
[image]
I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
Loading...
15.04.2015 - 00:29
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Bad English on 14.04.2015 at 22:17

I don't know, some chaos, behemot clone rip of, just lame drumming, bassing,. and growling, music what I dont like



behemoth rip-off? You clearly are deaf. Chaos? It is quite ordered.
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

Loading...
15.04.2015 - 00:47
Paz
Nuclear Cowboy
It seems that for K7 every DM band (except Swedish 'old school') is a Behemoth copycat
Loading...
15.04.2015 - 00:55
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Paz on 15.04.2015 at 00:47

It seems that for K7 every DM band (except Swedish 'old school') is a Behemoth copycat



Yeah

Malthusian has more in common with Swedish old school than Behemoth, albeit not much
----
Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

Loading...
15.04.2015 - 02:11
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Maybe its not Behemot riå off , still there was no clear one of directions, mix between both genres and hardly hear vocals
anyway rochefort 8 I am out of here ...
----
Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
[image]
I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
Loading...
24.04.2015 - 14:19
Rating: 6
mz

Too much of meandering. The actual riffing, when they finally appear, is not as effective. These guys seriously dropped the balls on this.
----
Giving my ears a rest from music.
Loading...
24.04.2015 - 18:47
Rating: 6
Alex F
Slick Dick Rick
Written by mz on 24.04.2015 at 14:19

Too much of meandering. The actual riffing, when they finally appear, is not as effective. These guys seriously dropped the balls on this.

I'm totally with you on the drop in quality, however I still managed to enjoy this to at least a slight degree. It's a good EP, but it can't even touch their demo, which was brilliance incarnate
Loading...
02.09.2015 - 15:25
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Eugh... what did you guys do? This is terrible and I'm not even sure why. I have to assume that this band saw that the tide was shifting within DM and thought they had to move with it to become something a bit more left-field and modern. It's a tuneless dirge, and a most ham-fisted attempt at sounding off-kilter. It's like Diskord or Baring Teeth gone wrong. Dissonance is an art. This is a child's drawing on a fridge. Let down.
Loading...
05.04.2016 - 05:30
Rating: 7
Daggon
Underpaid M.D.
Seems like I'm the only one who actually enjoys this one, I've revisited it quite often since its release and still I don't get why people talk shit about it.
----
"Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
Loading...

Hits total: 3946 | This month: 12