Such is the proclivity for extreme metal musicians to embark on multiple projects that death, doom and black metal supergroups aren’t as rare as found in more commercial echelons. But even by these metrics, the résumés of its members ensured Vltimas’s arrival came with more expectations. However, it was that very gravitas of frontman David Vincent that became the hitch with 2019’s Something Wicked Marches In.
With his position as death metal’s most recognisable voice, his trademark roars and decipherable diction meant even the most well-executed proposition couldn’t help but sound like, and thus be compared to, Morbid Angel’s unattainable heights.
