Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Decapitated, Origin
To start this review I should begin talking about the bands history first. They began around 2006 as a rather shitty deathcore act releasing their first EP "Welcome to Sludge City" in 2007 which received generally negative reviews within the Death Metal fanbase. It was bashes for its horrendous pig squeals and rediculouse amounts of inhales. The Limb Bizkit style gang vocals also didn't go to well with the metal fanbase. The next year they released their debut full legth "Before the Throne of Infection" while recieved considerably better then the previous effort was still not thrown into the death metal genre. It was clear they band wanted to be a death metal band and didn't want the deathcore label staying with them any longer. The vocals were improved and the live shows got even better then eventually the band released this album which I feel was the album they intended to release since the beggining of their career.
Now the reign of darkness is upon us as we are blasted with 45 minuetes of relentless Suffocation/Origin influenced semi technical death metal with almost no letting down. The album starts with a somewhat interesting intro that leads into a brutal smasher known as In Snakes I Bathe. Just from the opening 30 secodns of the track you can tell the band has come a long way since the last effort laid out by them. The guitars are decently technical and the drum patters actually very quite well during the songs (which is very rare today). The guitars sound somewhat like what you would hear on an Origin album or say even Cannibal Corpse at times. Just about every riff is interesting (if not memorable), and adds more icing to the cake, and while the bass that is slightly audible isn't anything crazy it does fit with the guitars decently well. The drum patterns I already said are quite interesting especially the drum rolls that kick in before a crazy riff takes over. The vocals are preatty good too, and for those who hate pig squeals they are preatty much gone completly on this release I beleive I only heared one part of the cd that actually had them used. His growl is deffinently considerably vicious especially compared to the last release you actually get the impression at times that he actually is really pissed off about things. It deffinently suits the lyrics which you can prolly guess are not so preatty. He also lets off the occasional high scream which is preatty good but is not used very often at all sadly which results in the vocals being preatty repetative but its all good since most bands are anyways.
If I had to pick out my favorite tracks one of them would be In Snakes I Bathe which is the absolutly crushing opening to the album which shows that the band means buisness. "I am pure fucking hate" sounds very catchy and deffinently meant to be a sing-along while your driving. Born Dead features vocals from the legendary producer Erik Rutan who produced Morbid Angel cds in the past and I don't know if this is his first appearence on a cd but he deffinently fixed this band up. Just like the previous effort this one has an instrumental to slow things down in the middle of it all. "VII: The Horror, the Destruction" is a very creepy and apocalyptic slow runner that sets the creepy mood for the rest of the album. Another one I didn't like at first was Cryogenica which is considerably different from the rest of the tracks since it seems more melodic death metal influenced but it eventually grew on me. The ending of the record is also very epic its mostly instrumental but it has some vocals in there but they dont stick out on here like in the other songs. The album ends with rain falling down which fades into complete silence for another minuete or so then you relize 45 minuets of your life just passed by rather fast.
This is a very impressive effort and its being sold currently for $9.99. If you have that money which not much to spend on and you love death metal go pick up this record for you will not be dissapointed. The only negative thing is that it won't break any new ground within the genre but its still a solid effort and will deffinently overtake many other releases im sure of this.
Pros:
A Solid release from a once medicore deathcore act
Catchy riffing and unique drum patters keeps the listener interested
Stomach punching vocals
Instrumental keeps the album from being to repetative
Its almost hard to find anything wrong with it
Cons:
Nothing really sticks out about this release
The vocals while better have much less variation then the previous releases
It might be a little long for some people
Overall: 8.5/10
Buy?: Its $9.99 at FYE so get it now
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