This one was/is cool. Wythersake are back with new album At War With Their Divinity, four years after their debut record Antiquity. Ya know how you can just tell a record’s gonna be good 30 seconds in? Well, that’s what I got from this one. Hell, as soon as my favorite tune started with “The Autumnal Passing” I was like, ‘Hell yeah! Let’s go!!’ “Shrines of Offal Rise” backs that up like a hitter in an MLB lineup, while “Chimerical God State Worship” flips the selectors to semi and just mows down everything in its path.
“Agents of Holy Death” is not only a great tune, but one I can see going over really well in a live setting. “Behind Shadows of Virtue” throws everything at the listener’s head including the kitchen sink, and quite frankly it feels like we’ve just done an hour on the stair stepper or the elliptical! Closer “Perverse Christ Aeon” is a track that lures you in, then slices you to ribbons. Another favorite for this guy. Now with all that said, the record isn’t perfect. It takes roughly three songs to get going, but once it does there are crowd-pleasers aplenty.
At the end of the day, I think Wythersake has delivered a good album. It’s just not great, or ‘gotta hear it now’ urgent, ya know? Still, good one boys!
Standout Tracks: “Perverse Christ Aeon”, “Agents of Holy Death”, “The Autumnal Passing”, “Shrines of Offal Rise”.