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5/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS
Top notch musicianship. Impeccable playing skills. Gurgled, brutal vocals. Relentless blastbeats. All the hallmarks of a modern brutal death metal album. So why am I so bored? I'll tell you why. It's because I've heard this band a thousand times in other forms since the 2000s. It was novel when Devourment and Disgorge first arrived on the scene, but now we have legions of bands that have built on their legacy without really contributing anything different. I'm hard pressed to tolerate yet another one. It's the same problem I'm having with the glut of so-called old-school death metal bands in the scene right now. I know that genre conventions in our corner of the musical universe are strict, and I'm not advocating for loosening them, because too much experimentation is bad for death metal's sound. But where's the originality, imagination, and diversity in the riffs? Deicide managed to release a whole slew of influential and well-written death metal albums within this confined space, and it's because of the amount of interesting riffs and their songwriting choices that made them unique. I'm sure some brutal death metal fans will just claim I do not "get it." However, I stick to my argument above. Why do I need another one of these bands? I give this a five out of ten because there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, yet there's absolutely nothing special about it.
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