Deathkrush unleash a world-ending vision on their debut full-length ‘Plague Protocol’

There’s no gentle entry point into Deathkrush’s first full-length ‘Plague Protocol’. This record drags you under, locks the door, and forces you to stare straight into the void. From the opening seconds of ‘Marching into hell’, it’s clear this is a fully imagined collapse rendered through sound. Everything here feels deliberate, ferocious, and alarmingly vivid, like a transmission from a future already spiralling out of control.

What makes this album hit so hard is its sense of scale. Deathkrush write as if they’re documenting extinction in real time. The riffs arrive like tectonic shifts, grinding and surging with a weight that feels almost architectural. Guitars churn with a suffocating density, locking into patterns that feel engineered to induce dread, while still allowing flashes of melody to cut through like distant warning lights.

The percussion is relentless yet calculated. Rapid-fire assaults give way to slower, crushing passages that feel even more punishing because of their restraint. These shifts keep us constantly off balance, suspended between panic and inevitability. Nothing here exists purely to show speed or technique, and every hit feels like part of a larger, unfolding catastrophe.

Vocally, the album becomes something truly monstrous. Two distinct extremes collide of piercing, animalistic screams scraping against cavernous low-end bellows create a dialogue that feels like a ritual. It’s chaotic, but never messy. There’s intent behind every sound and every surge of fury.

Thematically, Deathkrush aim far beyond personal anguish. This is music obsessed with collapse on a grand scale, such as the erosion of systems, the breakdown of identity, and the terrifying beauty of transformation through destruction. Yet there’s something strangely cathartic about it. In confronting annihilation so directly, the album offers a brutal kind of release, a way to scream back at an overwhelming world.

As a debut, ‘Plague Protocol’ is staggering in its confidence. Deathkrush sound like a band declaring war on complacency here. If this is only the opening chapter, then whatever comes next promises to be even more devastating. This is extreme music as prophecy, and it’s impossible to look away.