Nights Of Malice Chaos Excordium Review

June 21, 2026
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Nights of Malice

Chaos Excordium

Bleeding Art Collective/Blood Blast Distribution Nuclear Blast Records/Believe

2026

 

New Jersey deathcore outfit NIGHTS OF MALICE will unleash their Chaos Exordium full-length on June 4th through Bleeding Art Collective and Blood Blast Distribution (Nuclear Blast Records/Believe).

 

No surprise that this is my first listen of them. So, like most, I slap on my noise cancelling headphones and give it a listen. What a first impression.

 

So, I’m gonna do a compliment sammich here. Firstly, holy musical talent Batman! Every musician here is an expert at their instruments and the music shows that. The music sets it apart from a lot of black metal and pushes them towards melodic death metal. I’m also going to shout out Brenden McGrath because those vocals are insane. Keeping up the tunnel screaming which is akin to throat singing (the sounds come from the same place, vocally) is beyond impressive. So, ebbing from fry screams/goblin screams to gutturals to throat screaming. This is not an easy task at all. The biggest kudos.

 

I’m not sure if you can consider a negative, but the album flows in such a way that it wasn’t until track five that I felt a difference in the track’s structure. I mean that the tracks 1-4 almost sound like the same song. Now, this could be credited to how cohesive the band is and how the flow went. It’s not wholly negative, but maybe a criticism.

 

After that though, the rest of the tracks stand on their own individuality. Stacking up the whole album to be a seriously impressive performance. If you love heavy music, give them a listen. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.


~Rook

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