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Release Date: September 14th 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Format: DD
Deathdrone - Tracklist
1.The Will to Death 07:10
2.Doomsday Clock 08:57
3.Shadows Etched in Stone 03:23
4.Deathdrone 42:04
Members
Null - Vocals/Drums
Void - Guitars
Review
Deathdrone is the debut album from Death/Doom/Drone Metallers Burial Site where the name gives you a huge clue on what to expect for the album. As the band explore the lo-fi surroundings of the Death/Drone landscape with some brooding Doom Metal landscapes being added for gloomy effect. This isn’t the best produced record but it gives Burial Site some real brutal distorted heaviness into their music.
The album is over sixty two minutes long spread across four tracks with the final Burial Site being over forty two minutes in length. There’s a warped psychological appeal that’s heard within the band’s music and with how lead vocalist Null’s harsh growls are delivered. The use of LOW & SLOW and DISTORTED grooves can be pitch black and ambient heavy within tracks The Will To Death and Doomsday Clock channeling the most violent aspects of SUNN 0))), EARTH and KHANATE.
Burial Site experiment with Black Metal, Noise Metal and stripped down Sludge Metal for a sound that’s always viciously heavy. This album isn’t going to be for everyone and there are parts that I continue to struggle with as the experimental NOISE METAL aspects are even too deafening for me to listen to but it’s superbly played. The whole album feels like it was recorded in the PITS OF HELL with the band playing their brutal style of DRONE METAL to the closing seconds. The long drawn out instrumental passages are given multiple creative makeovers which allows Burial Site to keep the listener on the edge of their seat especially through the mammoth forty two minutes final track.
The excellent third track Shadows Etched In Stone does allow Burial Site to play a cool sounding Post-Rock and Semi-Acoustic track that has a deeply satisfying emotional centre to it all.
The final track does have faster grooves and frenzied Black Metal attacks with subtle shades of Psychedelic Terror moving the album into some highly unexpected areas of music. If you’re a fan of MERZBOW and MIZMOR then this track will feel like PARADISE to you all. I appreciated the technical and creative approach that Burial Site bring to this track alone.
I’m happy to admit that even though I found this album very hard to listen to at times, I still had a very good experience with the album that actually put me into some highly unexpected moments of terror along the way.
Deathdrone is a must have record for dedicated fans of the Extreme Metal Scene if you’re feeling brave enough that is!!!!
Words by Steve Howe
Links
https://www.youtube.com/@BurialSiteDoom
https://www.instagram.com/burialsitedoom/