Javanese Brutal Death Metallers Gerogot Release Eidoloklas on Comatose Music

After contributing two suitably savage tracks to the grotesque and gore obsessed Heinous Interstellar Malformations split release with Virulent Excision, Facelift Deformation and Gravitational Distortion in 2020, Gerogot turned their attention to their second full-length album, which crawled from the body pile in 2021.

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Heading To Eternal saw Gerogot’s unstoppable march towards the farthest reaches of sonic extremity continue unabated, with Metal Purgatory describing the album as one of the year’s “sickest, most gut-wrenching and disgusting pieces of brutal death metal”. And now the journey into darkness begins again, as Gerogot prepare to unleash the ultimate expression of their flesh-dissolving, bone-breaking, soul-rending horror…Eidoloklas!

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With ‘The Barrier Collapses’ wave after wave of pure destructive force is unleashed, grinding and crushing at furious velocities, with superb intricate guitar riffs rising up through the tumultuous onslaught. There’s barely a moment to reflect on the damage done before a second strike of formidable power and intensity hits, ‘Presage’ delivering punishing blows between blinding blasts of speed. It’s a breathless pattern that’s maintained throughout Eidoloklas, tightly controlled attacks, precise and purposeful, landing in a whirlwind of violence. The vocals are an inhuman rumble of absolute hostility, emotionless and pitiless as they roar across the immense blasts and staggering riffs like lurching monstrosities and disfigured demons. The malicious strength is uniform throughout this litany of eradication, be it ‘A New Dogma’ where shocking intensity collapses into a screaming, squirming morass of sickness before unleashing a fresh barrage of unbelievable fire power, or the wild annihilation of ‘Drowned In Fear’ where vocalist Krisna Saptian seems gripped by an uncontrollable blood rapture. Each track seems harder, faster, more skull crushing than the last as Eidoloklas charges on, until right at the end where we slam into the monolithic presence of ‘Will Come…’ The frenzy dissipates, becoming a bleak and broken crawl through the ruins of the world, heavy with portents of a new order, built upon blood and destruction.