Album Review: Death Yell – Demons of Lust
Band: Death Yell
Title: Demons of Lust
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Release date: November 28th, 2025
Country: Chile
Format reviewed: High-Quality Digital Recording
Album Review: Death Yell – Demons of Lust via Hells Headbangers Records by Consanguineus
The 1980s were a turbulent and explosive time for South America — socially, politically, and certainly musically. Out of that volatile climate arose a wave of raw, uncompromising metal bands that would forever shape the foundations of the underground. Names like Sarcófago, Sepultura, and Pentagram (Chile) now hold legendary status — and Death Yell rightfully deserves a place alongside them.
The band first emerged in 1987 under the name Pestilence, but when it turned out their Dutch counterparts had already claimed it, they reemerged a year later as Death Yell. Their first strike, the Vengeance from Darkness demo released in 1989, hit the scene like an infernal bomb. Not long after came a split with Finnish extremists Beherit — a collaboration that has since taken on almost mythical status within the underground.
And yet, just as the fire burned brightest, it suddenly went out. Death Yell disappeared from the scene, lingering only through scattered compilations and reissues — relics from a time when South American metal sounded like pure blasphemy.
Then, in 2013, the underworld cracked open once more. More than two decades after their demise, Death Yell crawled back from the shadows with a devastating split EP alongside Atomic Aggressor, proving that their demonic energy had lost none of its potency — if anything, it had grown stronger.
Now, the Chilean veterans return with their long-awaited second full-length, the follow-up to Descent into Hell. What we get is exactly what one hopes for from this legendary act: pure Death/Black Metal, firmly rooted in thrash, and steeped in that unmistakable South American intensity. The echoes of Sarcófago and early Sepultura are unmistakable, but Death Yell still sound entirely like themselves — intense, unrestrained, and utterly convincing.
The production is raw yet effective — sharp enough to let every riff and furious drum strike shine through, but without losing any of its grimy, underground charm. There’s no sterile polish here, no modern slickness — this is music that crawls straight from the bowels of the Chilean underground.
What’s most striking is the timelessness of their sound. Death Yell play as if the decades in between never happened — the same dark fury, the same demonic drive, only even more forceful and focused. The result is an album that keeps the spirit of the South American metal underground alive without ever descending into nostalgia.
For anyone who holds that fiery chaos of the 1980s South American scene close to heart, this is essential listening. Death Yell proves once more that true darkness never dies — it smolders, it waits, and then it strikes with the kind of force only hell itself can conjure. 8.5/10
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