Feel the poison in your veins...
'The Venom in the Mouth of God' sees Combichrist at their most expansive and honest. It's a record that tears open the gap between who we are and who we perform ourselves to be, leaving it bleeding.
Since the early 2000s, Andy LaPlegua has been one of industrial metal's defining forces, fusing EBM brutality with hard rock muscle in a way that few other acts have managed to replicate. This new album plays like a descent and a reckoning in one. The opening run from 'ODR' through 'Born Deströyer' hits like a controlled demolition: dense, mechanised and merciless. Midway through the album, the mood shifts and stretches with 'Each Scar A Vision' and 'The Way We Want To Be Seen', which explore the psychological aspects of the masks we wear and the versions of ourselves we construct for others.
'Demons Wanna Be Summoned' features King 810, the Michigan-bred rap-metal outfit known for their confrontational intensity — a collaboration that fits the relentless atmosphere of the album like a blade in a wound.
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