Void Monuments – Posthumous Imprecation
Release Date: 16th January 2026
Label: Blood Harvest
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Genre: Death Metal
FFO: Incantation, Ancient Death, Cavern Womb.
Review By: Aeons Burning
Sometimes, all the body needs is some good old-fashioned meat and potatoes death metal, and that’s exactly what Void Monuments provides. Hailing from Russia, these guys mainly perform in other bands such as Kolossus and Pyre, but this side project eschews the more blackened leanings of their other projects, instead choosing to play death metal in the style of Incantation, which is to say the very evil sounding kind. However, I’m a bit picky with the death metal I choose to grace my ears with, usually preferring blackened death metal or anything that could conceivably be called war metal. For meat and potatoes death metal to be a regular spinner for me, it needs to really punch above its weight, and unfortunately, Void Monuments doesn’t quite do that, but it’s still a solid slab of metal regardless.
Once we’ve gotten past the utterly pointless intro track, we’re right in it. Epitome of Fear is pretty much exactly how you would expect a song called Epitome of Fear on a death metal album to sound, which is just a roundabout way of saying it’s rather generic. It’s not bad, necessarily, but it doesn’t do much for me. If you’re looking for a real standout here, or you think it improves drastically after the first proper track, you would be wrong. Void Monuments do not take any risks whatsoever, and the end result is an album that, while competent and a fun listen, is quite one-note, and you wouldn’t be remiss if you skipped it. This is the problem with meat-n-taters death metal: it doesn’t do too much to justify listening more than once.
I don’t mean to sound too harsh in this review, because at the end of the day, everything on here minus the intro track is genuinely solid death metal. There are a few solos sprinkled around the crushing riffs for good measure, and the Pyre vocalist is quite talented – I enjoyed their album last year. I cannot, however, recommend Void Monuments to anyone who wishes to listen to some truly remarkable death metal, because at the end of the day, it’s not truly remarkable. It’s just solid. And if all you care about is slapping some heavy music on while you lift things and don’t really care how it sounds, then Posthumous Imprecation is for you. Otherwise, you’re better off searching a little harder for that fix of heavy.
(3 / 5)
