Out of the United Kingdom’s deepest and darkest abyss comes a newish death metal “supergroup”, which, based on their latest demo release, is nothing but promising and should stir the underground death metal scene awake. Ageless Summoning shares its members with Of Spire & Throne, Haar, Úir, Scordatura, Laceration and many more and the band is split over Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol, which probably makes the running of this band logistically a challenging undertaking.
Taking their name from Morbid Angel’s Gateway to Annihilation release, at least that’s what I assume, you get a good starting point for the type of death metal you’ll soon be blasting from your speakers (hopefully). With only two tracks, ‘Usurper of the Void’ and ‘Salvation in Ash’, there’s unfortunately only roughly 12 minutes of music, but enough to mark their stamp on the scene.
The riffing is sublime, the drums vary in speed with plenty of solid double kick drum work, and the lead guitarist gets plentiful opportunities to get those classic old school death metal fills in. Probably more impressive are the deep, guttural vocals, from Of Spire & Throne’s front man Ali Lauder, giving you a punch straight into the guts. Production wise I would have liked the drums to be a bit louder and therefore have a bit more ‘oomph’, and the lead guitar gets a wee bit lost in the mix at times, but overall for a demo release this is only a minor criticism.
Death metal fans, be aware of Ageless Summoning and get their demo downloaded from their Bandcamp page now! It’s a ‘name your price’ download, but throw them some cash so we can hopefully expect a full-length release in the near future.
Ageless Summoning have well and truly arrived.
