Description
As a leader of the Watchers in apocryphal abrahamic scriptures, Samyaza (or Samiarus in Arabic) was a rebel angel who shared knowledge with men and birthed the Nephilim, becoming a danger to divine power and law. The debut EP from the eponymous Oakland CA-based black/death metal terrorists is a new weapon of sonic terror conceived from within the SF Bay Area underground by current and past members of Abnutivum, Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Doomsday, Abstracter and Mentor. In its sanguinary twenty three minutes of abysmal retaliation, "Reign Destroyer" channels the cruelty and darkness of bands like Blasphemy and Archgoat into a bestial sonic glorification of chaos, terror, and violence. While deliberately embracing and preserving the barbarism and insanity of the so called "war metal" movement, Samiarus' own approach to the craft has brought in a number of other influences to further weaponize its warmongering design, mainly coming from the band members' punk backgrounds and adjacent experimental interests, which have been woven into their extreme metal foundation, compounding into a terror-engulfing onslaught rife with vengeance, resentment and scorn. These influences mainly coming from bands like G.I.S.M., Doom, Raw Nerve, Cult Ritual, Discharge and Siege, as well as from the band members' interest in industrial noise, have ultimately created a war-torn sonic beast with a vitriolic and blown out sound reminiscent of raw punk and noise, that underlines a work seething with wrathful and unapologetic reflections on the human condition and on society's worst embodiments. Their diverse musical influences, and their hyper-realist themes grounded in a perpetually conflicting entrenchment of both realism and idealism, have made Samiarus' music a weapon of antihuman retribution, and a real life contemporary war zone for the gruesome dismantling of oppressors, where nothing is spared and everyone is despised, destroyed and reduced to the sum and consequences of their own actions.
