It's an embarrassing conceit that Romania is some sort of peasant hinterland untouched by soya lattes, wi-fi internet and personal hygene, not helped in the slightest by its few appearances in our consciousness coming via 'and finally...' stories about fortune tellers. Transylvanian four-piece Spiritual Ravishment are from Oradea, right on the Hungarian border, and they're getting right up in your grills with modernity, cranking out what is ostensibly mosh-fuelled thoroughbred deathcore, with the driving mechanical riffage of post-Gothenberg death/thrash jabbing at you on second track 'Hectic' like an unnecessary piece of flying glass in a 3D movie.All of that admittedly sounds absolutely dreadful on paper – deathcore, like shitty action movies, are difficult to describe without assuming your reader has adjusted their expectations to something beefy and breakdown heavy that tickles the animal parts of the brain untouched by crosswords and logic puzzles. And if this is a shitty action movie for a beer-fuelled Friday night, it's a post-apocalyptic one.
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