After their debut album Detached From Life, Mr. Death returns to tie you up with Death Suits You. Six brand-new tracks of old-school death metal: heavier, tougher and more straight-in-the-face than ever. A beast of a teaser of their abilities before the second full-length album to come in 2011!
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On the 2nd of November 2010, a new Stench emerges out of the blackness. In Putrescence – a new album of Death’s music and imagery – from the death metal trio of Stench, featuring members of Tribulation. Recorded by Olof Wikstrand (Hvergelmer Studios) and mixed by Tore Stjerna (Necromorbus Studios), with the extensive and horrid hand-made artwork by Necromantic Art. Debut album of a unique band – not to be missed. The audio and visual essence matches each other in order to express death itself. The sound and the vision of death is present here. Be welcomed to the unique experience!
Genre: Death Metal
Label: Regain Records
I’m going to keep this review short and sweet since I conveniently don’t really need to say much about Grave’s newest effort Burial Ground.
It’s been two years since Dominion VIII. Have Grave matured since then? No. Did they need to? No. Is this album any good? Of course. Grave pretty much have their fan base right where they want them and Grave’s fan base have Grave right where they want them. It’s a wonderful symbiotic relationship where both sides get exactly what they desire:
Fans Get: Another album of mid-paced death metal, complete with the same fairly weak, yet serviceable vocals, lots of crashes and snare and plenty of vintage riffs.
Grave Gets: Yet another album under their belt and a little bit of cash for their effort. (Hopefully the gratitude of their fans is in there somewhere as well…)
Overall: It’s Swedish. It’s death metal. It’s Grave. It’s awesome.
8.5/10
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Genres: Death Metal, Doom
Label: Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
I ordered this nifty little package forever ago, and it arrived forever ago, and I haven’t listened to it once until today. And wow. I should have listened to it forever ago.
Coffins’ “Corpse Parade” is a wicked doomy death metal song that slowly crushes you to death. This ain’t no ordinary Japanese metal band; think along the lines of Gallhammer if you’re not familiar with Coffins’ work, but with less black metal. Good stuff.
7.5 out of 10.
Spun in Darkness come out of Las Vegas and bring “Bloodless” to this 7-inch. It’s a pretty straight up death metal song, old school styled and fucking good. Pretty much a perfect match for HPGD’s roster.
7.5 out of 10.
In total, with good tunes and a nice little package, the Coffins/Spun in Darkness split is pretty good. I definitely recommend it if you’re fans of either band, or if you’re into the scenes represented at all. And for the low price of like $6 or so, you can’t go wrong.
7.5 out of 10.
Genre: Brutal Death Metal, Death Metal
Label: Hell’s Headbangers
From the sounds of things, Disfigured Dead is a few young guys who were exposed to tons of old school death metal albums like Death’s Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy and Grave’s Into the Grave, with some thrash classics as well. They’ve taken the lessons taught by the masters of the genre, were dutiful in taking down the notes, learning what was being taught rather than just mimicking it. And it shows in the great riffs, the solid drums, and the wicked ass vocals, all of which are fairly original.
As a plus, these guys are definitely not following the recent trends in death metal to incorporate hardcore elements, which makes me happy, and they aren’t venturing into the techdeath territory which of late is getting to be somewhat stale.
This is old style death metal the way death metal should be. Think Cannibal Corpse, Headhunter DC, Asphyx, Death, Grave… in fact, if you’re a fan of Ibex Moon’s current roster or early 90’s Century Media and Roadrunner, I think you’d be a fan of Disfigured dead.
Favorite tracks are “Mentally Mutilated”, “Screamatorium”, which also wins the Coolest Song Title of the Album Award, and “They Hear Your Heart Beating”, with honourable mention for “Eternally Entombed”.
7.5 out of 10.
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