Aura Damage is an album that thrives on aesthetic. Like a sludgy, drawling, volcanic version of Behemoth, but pulling their own weight in terms of subterranean compositional tactics, Hell United escape such easily classifiable comparisons and enter their own noxious musical realm that is incredibly engaging in its propensity for shifting scenes of violence. This is a primal mixture of black and death metal infused with molasses and smoke, a veritable swamp of an album that flows through an interesting host of techniques and paces, all of them suffocating and consuming. The atmosphere is sickly and poignant, created by an incredibly fitting, purulent soup of a production, where the roiling bass lines envelop you like a psychoactive bog. They pulse out like venomous waves, slowly consuming you and lulling you into a coma, and just when you think you?re light is snuffed, they dial the intensity up to ten, and the guitars slice around you like a school of piranha, shredding your helpless skin as hallucinations take hold. Hell United pull off slow and fast paced material in equal magnitudes of quality, and everything in between, without ever releasing you from their menacing, monstrous grip. Hell United have written hundreds of menacing, unsettling, and downright violent guitar and bass lines for this album, and proceeded to layer them in such a way as to often create an ever-shifting, ever-engrossing experience that feels very multi-dimensional. Each song is a living, pulsing, psychotic world unto its own, and this morphing textural integrity is what makes Aura Damage so thoroughly compelling and enjoyable.