Mammon’s Throne – My Body to the Worms album review by Mark J. Pure Graveyard Filth!!!

 

Mammon’s Throne – My Body to the Worms (Melbourne extreme doom, Hammerheart Records)

Melbourne’s doom bastards have been cooking up pure graveyard filth for years, and this third album is the rotten crown on it all. Senseless Death opens the gates with nine minutes of crushing, funeral-march riffs that feel like your ribcage slowly collapsing under wet concrete – slow, heavy, laced with that blackened snarl that turns the whole thing into something way nastier than straight sludge. Then Clandestine Unholy Rites hits like a ritual gone wrong, short and vicious, before Elixir builds this tense, melodic tension that sneaks in clean vocal despair right when you think it’s all just agony. Every riff drips isolation and melancholy, but it still headbangs like a bastard – think Candlemass weight smashed into Hooded Menace filth with Bolt Thrower war-grind pulses.

The evil really crawls deeper on Every Day More Sickened, that nine-minute beast where throaty rasps twist into tremolo melodies and the guitars just ooze tragedy while the drums punish without mercy. At The Threshold Of Eternity is this eerie guitar-and-piano interlude that gives you one breath before An Angel’s Grace descends into eight minutes of soul-devouring doom, and closer Departed seals the coffin with video-level intensity. The whole record bends death, doom, and black metal into this suffocating dark extreme metal nightmare – no glossy production, just raw grief turned up to eleven.

What seals it is their insane commitment to the art: those old-school 90s Morbid Angel/Hypocrisy-style videos for Elixir, Every Day More Sickened, and Departed are straight-up cinematic evil, despite the album cover’s intriguing colour choice – that weird Book of Ceremonial Magic parchment-and-Pact vibe that looks more occult library than typical doom black. These cunts aren’t phoning it in; they’re forging real ritual. If you need your soul eaten slowly and violently, this is the one. Spin it at night and feel the worms. 9.5/10 coffins. My Body to the Worms has something for everyone, from doom to death metal and black metal and is a masterpiece.

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