Release Date: 18 July 2025
Song Count: 12
Rating: 6.9/10
Description:
On brand for Halloween now being upon us, today's album with an amazingly horrifying cover is the death metal album Sorrow Will Drown Us All by Michigan-based band Recorruptor. An incredibly heavy set of songs not unlike the sound of a giant paper shredder tearing apart a pterodactyl, because I suppose there is only so many ways to describe metal music before one makes it all sound the same in spite of that being far from the case and has to resort to descriptions like this, this album is most certainly not for the faint of heart...or ears, for that matter.
Sorrow Will Drown Us All is a very tightly packed collection of tracks that leaves little room to play when it comes to its structure - it gets straight to the point and stays on point for extended durations of time, leading to decreased amounts of variation in tempos or playstyles of instruments in favour of what is practically one long-spanning, consistent type of sound and quality. Said consistent quality is thankfully relatively high, with extremely technically impressive guitars, basses and drums, earth-shattering metal vocals and growls and surprisingly slick production to tie it all together all being combined to create a more than satiating dozen of tracks.
The sheer level of energy that stays consistently afloat throughout the entire 48-minute runtime, however, is also to Sorrow Will Drown Us All's detriment, as it can reach an excessively repetitive and frankly exhaustive level, both mentally and physically (ashamed to admit that the album induced a very brief spell of tinnitus in me from its sheer volume), leading to a less-than pleasant dent in the listening experience. Though there are variances in tempo and ambience on a couple of occasions that especially stand out in the drought, such as the openings to "Urn of Verglas" and - the album's highlight track - "Envenoming", the breakdown sequence in the second half of the closing track "Scourge of Prometheus", or the brief pause from the weight with a male choir and string instruments in "Death at the Hands of His Image" as a build-up to said closing track, they are fewer and further in-between than the album perhaps may have needed to keep one's prolonged interest.
Overall though, in spite of these drawbacks, this album most definitely has something to enjoy for fans of extremely heavy metal music, in-part transcending the fragile confines of subgenres and providing an intense and stimulating experience.