{"id":67168,"date":"2017-06-09T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=67168"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:34:54","slug":"in-case-you-missed-it-paroxsihzems-abyss-of-excruciating-vexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/in-case-you-missed-it-paroxsihzems-abyss-of-excruciating-vexes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Missed It: Paroxsihzem’s Abyss of Excruciating Vexes<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally released in March last year,\u00a0Paroxsihzem<\/strong>‘s agonizing\u00a0EP,\u00a0Abyss of Excruciating Vexes<\/em>, has been resuscitated for a limited tape run on the always killer\u00a0Krucyator Productions<\/strong>. If you a) missed this horrifying blast fest, or b) think tapes are the tech of the future, here’s your chance to get caught up. Disclaimer: you should probably be wearing a hazmat suit when you stab play below.<\/p>\n

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Paroxsihzem have only been active since 2009, but they’ve already created quite a name for themselves amid the choked gutters of Canada’s underground bestial blackened death\/war metal scene. With two previous demos, a full-length, and a split with the absolutely horrendous\u00a0Adversarial<\/strong>, the band have cut their teeth on the scorched pavement of Canada’s extreme landscape and keep plowing forward with murderous rage. Last year’s EP,\u00a0Abyss of Excruciating Vexes<\/em>, capitalized on all that bloodshed and was certainly sufficiently vitriolic to capture the attention of Krucyator’s Loic of\u00a0Autokrator<\/strong><\/a> fame. If that isn’t high praise and a seal of approval regarding a release’s capability to pulverize, I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n

So how does\u00a0Abyss of Excruciating Vexes<\/em> deliver on that promise? Superbly, in fact.\u00a0As it turns out,\u00a0Excruciating Vexes<\/em> is a horrifyingly apt title; this album is heavy as all hell. The unrepentant blasts (which are delightfully mixed well above the downtuned guitars) are downright worrisome, sinking their teeth into your skin while the guitars skitter and slide across the frets with reckless abandon. There are several parts in the first track alone (“Dillanties Torture”) when the song sounds like the whole composition is just going to go completely off the rails. Within the last twenty seconds, the guitarists squeal and solo with little regard for tuning or taste while the rhythm section just sort of judders and screeches to a halt like some nasty, fleshy abomination summoned from the void rampaging behind you before collapsing into a p\u00e2t\u00e9 of distorted gristle and percussive viscera. The bilious vocals that sound like a frog vomiting are just the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n