Album Review: Medico Peste – Aesthetic Of Hunger

Band: Medico Peste
Title: Aesthetic Of Hunger
Label: Malignant Voices
Release date: May 15th 2025
Country: Poland
Format reviewed: High quality digital recording

Album Review: Medico Peste – Aesthetic Of Hunger via Malignant Voices by Michelle

To be completely honest, at first I thought this album wouldn’t meet my expectations, though this polish black metal act proved me wrong. What I must say though, the beautiful artwork of the album cover is what mostly lured me in. But going back to what I have previously stated, the slight goofiness of the first few seconds from the first track is probably what made me instantly get a bit skeptical about what I was about to dive into. No worries though, because despite this, Medico Peste are almost what I think the definition of a great album is.

Saint Anthony’s Fire‘s calmness is highly accentuated for about a couple of minutes before the song quickly progresses into the roughness of your usual black metal band. This transition is well put in place though, and so are the vocals which are high pitched, yet still hold a harshness to them that kind of make them sound almost like growls. Either way, this song has some really nice tremolo picking alongside the other guitar which maintains the gloomy atmosphere of this record.

Since I don’t want to repeat myself too many times, I’m mostly going to talk about the songs which I personally think sounded the best to me. Though what is to be clearly mentioned is the way Medico Peste have this unique way of switching between calm and brutal. Because in my opinion, diversity is really important when it comes to metal, no matter the subgenre. What I liked the most in Subversion & Simulacra is the fast palm muting from around the 3rd-ish minute, which caught my attention immediately.

What caught me completely off-guard was the fifth track, Antrakt, because it feels way out of place. This is what I thought initially, before the tremolo picking started. The sudden calmess of this song is what I think makes this band quite unique.

Viaticum is probably my favorite out of this whole record, that is because of the unexpected appearance of the piano which I think added a pretty nice touch to the usual violent sound. While there isn’t much to say besides this, this song truly unfocused my attention from what I was doing while listening to this to the interesting ambience created with the dissapearance of the vocals around the end.

Needless to say anymore, Medico Peste is the definition of don’t judge a book by its cover, despite the cover itself being just as good as the sound is. 9/10

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