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Darah – Holier Than Thou
Album | 24/10/2025 | Underground Syndicate
33:14 | 11 tracks | CD / Digital
Death Metal / Extreme Metal
Singapore
In Medias Res
Singapore’s quintet Darah does not beat about the bush on their debut album. Instead, the eleven-track longplayer begins with the raging thunderstorm Eternal Descent. From then on, Holier Than Thou keeps a steady level of brutality and sheer musical violence. For half an hour, the five musicians raise hell and perform a constant onlaught of extreme metal. Only few short passages like in Butchered Beyond Recognition leave the listeners some time to recover their neck muscles. Nevertheless, mercy is not to be expected during this amazing display of bloodthirsty death metal.
Unholy Spring Tides
Despite the all-time high in rawness, Holier Than Thou is highly exciting. Darah provide versatile soundscapes that remind of a savage volcano spewing lava, blood, and hellfire. Driven by ferocious velocity from the drums, a merciless tempest from the bass, guitar riffs that hit the listeners’ ears like meteor strikes, and vocals from the depths of hell, Darah shake, plow, and shoot like the army of the undead. Between the massive grooves and the unholy atmosphere, Holier Than Thou is coined by frequent spring tides such as the wild guitar solo at the ending of Dropped At Birth. These highlights increase the joy of listening to this album even more.
The Five Horsemen
Islam Falmi (drums), Shu Kai (bass), Hilman Eddie (vocals), Iszzuan and Aidil (guitars) bring destruction, scorched earth, and a power workout for your neck muscles. Darah‘s Holier Than Thou is an intelligent and powerful performance of high-class brutality. With influences from Polish death metal and Bay Area thrash, the quintet from Singapore presents a progressive and yet brachial all-killer-no-filler onslaught.
