Inspired by bands like Asphyx, Immortal and Deicide and influenced by occultism and misanthropy, Swedish Blackened Death Metal act Vulture were formed in 2011. They soon began spreading the disease, a hateful gospel of blackened and pestilence ridden fury sweeping across the lands with 2012’s “The Abortion of Mother Mary” and 2014’s “Humanity Is A Disease”. However things were not as they should be and after a period of incarceration in bowels of Hell itself the band re-emerged as GAM, offering 2019 album “Crowned and Reborn” as evidence of a refined sound equally as suffocating as it is brutal. Six long years have passed since that fateful day and now there are dark clouds overhead once more with “Iron Gauntlet” looming large on the horizon.
The four horse men of the apocalypse ride the plague winds once more, tearing a hole in the fabric of the space time continuum with the viciously barbed “In the Absence of Light“. A blistering assault on the senses, its the warning you should heed because this isn’t for the faint of heart or weak of mind, the caustic screams and abrasive guitars matched by only by the thunderous percussive battery. Restless and relentless from the very start, this sinister and menacing cut is a cult horror classic that will leave you with sandblasted skin, the main riff a witches brew that borders on the hypnotic trance inducing side of madness. After that punishing wake up call “Begging for the Whip” grinds the gears of depravity with death growls and malevolence, a groove laden main riff underpinning everything. Bludgeoning rhythms grind what’s left of your soul into the dirt, their malicious intent on display throughout. Throwing their bullets on the fire and running like hell, “Wounds of God” is a speed demon you might not have seen coming. Front loaded with blast beats and ferocity, this one unleashes the scorn of a wrathful God, throwing lightening bolts at those who would question his narcissistic vision. One more powerfully bleak vision is left in this collection in “Worship and Obey” and it finds GAM bringing a wealth of heavy death groove to the King’s table. A monster of a track that is as blackened as it is bruised, if offers no remorse and no repent as it hammers you into the ground like a rag doll, shattering your bones as it beats you into a pulp. The drum sound is immense as the bloodcurdling roars churn and burn, the dirty down tuned riffs exactly the doctor ordered, served up with a glass of single malt whiskey and a single cube of ice [8/10]
Track Listing
- In the Absence of Light
- Begging for the Whip
- Wounds of God
- Worship and Obey
“Iron Gauntlet” by GAM is out 1st August 2025
