Alabama’s Chaos Inception released two cool albums years ago.  Collision with Oblivion in 2009 and The Abrogation in 2012.  Both albums were heavily influenced by the first three Tucker lead Morbid Angel albums.  Stick with me, since this is like six degrees of Chaos Inception!

Well, Vengeance Evangel is the long-awaited third album after line-up shifts that lead to some of the band members splintering off, forming Black Hole Deity.  That band released the awesome debut Profane Geometry in 2024 and the music, quite honestly, sounds just like Chaos Inception.  A good thing, mind you.  Original Chaos Inception members Gary White – Drums and Matt Barnes Guitars welcome into the fold Garth Lovvorn – Bass and Jason Flippo – Vocals.  Well kind of sort of.  The two newer members may already be gone because this album has Gary doing the vocals and Kévin Paradis on drums.  So for now they seem to be a two-piece, with a side of fries.

Vengeance Evangel, from start to finish, to put it bluntly, is ferocious.  “Artillery of Humwawa” starts things off with monster blasting and slick and quick guitar solos in the beginning.  The Morbid Angel influences remain in place.  And the variety of weird guitar parts and squeals and pinch harmonics run rampant on this.  The blasting is so friggin’ tight, it will make chest cavities collapse all over town.  Crazy opening song.

“Falsificator” up next is no less chaotic.  Some very creative drum moments early on, then BOOM!!  Right into killer blasting and this tune has a plethora of tempo shifts.  The galloping, the blasts and some mid-paced moments.  Great guitar soloing over the blasts as well and some double pounding drum techniques towards the end.  Soooo I was running on the treadmill recently and I noticed I was running faster than normal, and I was listening to this album.

The title track is a slow meandering start.  Something you will need due to the relentless nature of this beast of an album.  The mid-paced double bass is great, then right into the blasting.  The song slows down the speed, but we wind up getting this start and stop on a dime types of quick blasts, then back into the mid-paced heaviness.  This is dizzying to the nth degree, however it works.  These moments are abrupt and will not give a chance to catch your breath.

“Empire of Prevarication” starts out as a tech-death metal song with massive guitar soloing over the blasts.  Then the blasting really takes center stage.  I like how the song slows down a bit and I find the vocal arrangements to fit really well.  Enunciated and punctuated nicely.  Then right into more blasting.  There’s more solos, blasting, excerpts of a woman screaming..all right here folks!

Vengeance Evangel is the best album Chaos Inception has released.  The band name always went well with the music and this album is even more lethal and chaotic than past efforts.  Believe it or not, there is a fair share of melodies on this album, however, for the majority of this album, this is high velocity brutal old school Morbid Angel type of madness.  Welcome back to the fold Chaos Inception.  What a ripper!

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