2025 Redefining Darkness Records (CD, LP)
www.redefiningdarkness.com
10/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS
This is the second full length from these Cleveland death/thrash masters. They deliver brutal thrashing death metal with a heavy dose of brilliant technicality, reminding me of luminaries like Hellwitch or Demolition Hammer, even Razor and Destruction, but with a heavy dose of death. The singer is truly unique - he shifts from a growl to a yell to a falsetto (yes, a falsetto) in one measure sometimes, and it works. The drummer is wildly talented, all over his kit with all sorts of fills and rolls. The guitars are nonstop aggressive thrashing hell, with top notch riff after top notch riff. We even get melodic solos from time to time. How can this be death metal, you ask, if there are so many non-death metal elements? Trust me, it just is - there's no doubt about it. "Worms and Dirt" has some of the most aggressive riffing I've heard in a long time, and the vocal lines are perfectly sung and punchy. I think I love the singer's delivery most of all, intense, snarling, and evil above all else. This is truly unique shit, and not one other band sounds like this. They've bottled lightning on this album and it is absolutely perfect. Buy it, steal it, kill for it, just go get it.
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