Glorior Belli – Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls (2013)

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After causing a lot of frowns and confusion with their solid “The Great Southern Darkness” release, France’s Glorior Belli returns with a more compact and fully integrated sound. In “Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurs” their combination of Black Metal elements with a Southern Rock and Sludge comes to full fruition and delivers one of the best albums of 2013. With their previous album being a bigger jump of what we expected, we are glad that they regained control of their sound and produced 45 minutes of brilliant music.

Immediately as the album opens we have crushing twangy riffs that bleed Sludge and Southern Rock influences. The vocals are quite powerful and nicely complement the band’s knack for intoxicating melodies. While the band’s style change was very evident and in your face on their previous album, songs like “Wolves At My Door” and “Ain’t No Pit Deep Enough” quickly show how the tamed their explosive sound and combined better in this release.

Our first favorite track of this release is the crunchy and emotional “A Hoax, A Croc!” thanks to its Southern charm and incisive guitar work. We are quite impressed with the quality of the guitar work in this release on super catchy songs like “I Asked For Whine, He Gave Me Blood” and the mystic “Le Blackout Blues”. The band has a gift for mixing Sludgy elements into their sound and making them sound very unconventional compared to every other release we get from that genre.

Saving the best for last, the hypnotic album title track closes this release with a very emotive atmosphere and relaxing pace. Glorior Belli has clearly outdone themselves with this amazing release that gets the combination of Southern Rock / Sludge / Black Metal perfectly right and will surely lure you into a trance. “Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls” is one of those albums that will grab you since the first riff and will never let you go.

Band: 92/100 Album: Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls

Label: Agonia Records

Release: October 29th, 2013 (Europe) / November 12th, 2013 (North America)

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Genre: Black Metal / Southern Rock / Sludge

Country: France

Rating: 90/100
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