2024 Transcending Obscurity Records
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From Sweden comes this group of miscreants, plying their metallic trade in the same fashion as the death gods of old! HM-2s get cranked up to chainsaw on this one, and since I'm a complete sucker for the "Swedish" sound, I'm all in. It helps that the album has a hefty serving of d-beat punk in it, amping up the energy level of the death metal on offer here.
Stylistically, think Grave, Dismember, Carnage, but especially Entombed on this one. Even the vocals remind me a little of LG Petrov's. Someone needs to carry on his legacy, so it might as well be Crawl. The punchy bass drum sound helps out the guitars, the solidness of them shining through the distortion of the guitars and roaring vocals. Each song has a heavy-ass thrash riff in it that begs you for movement, whether snapping your neck to the beat, or tossing your body into the crowd.
This is a worthy record in an over-saturated specific death metal sound, and while some may argue we don't need another Swedish-style death metal band, I have to say this band is doing it well enough and memorably enough to stand with the legends. Time will tell if they're mentioned in the same breath as the elder gods of the scene, but I have a feeling there will at least be respect on their name.
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