Cyclopean Blood Temple

"Cyclopean Blood Temple unleash 14 minutes of unyielding, chaotic grind on their debut EP release, Unholy Union. Dark, vile, and extremely unpredictable, this Florida quartet utilize a unique and caustic form of grindcore to eviscerate their listeners. The songs rip and roar with the genre’s innate hyper-speed fury, but are also brimming with gruesome dissonance and blackened sensibilities. The record kicks off with the dizzying one-two punch of “Worship” and “Dead Alive”. “Worship” drowns listeners in a swirling murk of disfigured, serpentine, cacophonous riffs that bring Portal‘s latter work to mind, while “Dead Alive” crushes with brooding hardcore attacks, disemboweling death metal, and skull-caving breakdowns. The album’s shortest track, “Temple of Torment”, also proves to its most straightforward grind assault, even though it still embodies the band’s singular sense of ugliness. The album’s three-minute centerpiece, “Outer Darkness”, proves to be the record’s heaviest moment. The track features a monstrous barrage of blackened, tremolo-picked grooves that ultimately bleed into an off-kilter, dissonant sludge march that will bury listeners under its weight. All-in-all, Unholy Union is the best debut Cyclopean Blood Temple could ask for. Fans of getting completely torn to shreds, take note."
- Lane Oliver, SVBTERRANEAN
svbterranean.net/2018/04/13/quick-reviews-artorias-and-cyclopean-blood-temple/