You can’t beat demons and devils on the cover art backed up by a distinctive spiky logo, which is different to the one used previously and on their web pages I have to say, to set you up nicely for some good old dirty death metal fury.
The moment the vocal bark growls in your ears on “Desecration Storm” there is a mammoth beastly guitar sound as the clattering double bass stomps nice little patterns on your cranium. The riffing has a blackened touch in places but this is pure deathly deadliness in all its putrid glory. Noticeably the band has opted for an alternating fast and slow song order as “Forsaken Doom” with appropriate song title is belched out. The guitar sound has Triptykon density and OK it isn’t as perfectly produced but it is still damn intense as the song’s riff has a “Where The Slime Live” from Morbid Angel’s “Domination” album driving fetidness. Another corking riff appears on “Rising Of The Beast” which borders Swedeath but never quite ventures completely into it.
Once again the slower “Dead And Rotting” has Triptykon crushing doominess about it with that massive oppressive sound but with riffs not too dissimilar to Obituary’s “Cause Of Death” material. “Idolator” is up next with fast bruising filth that is brutal yet catchy as “Terrorstrikes” possesses a crushing caustic riffing style yet packed with groove and I guess even a touch of crust punk for added griminess. A doom trip once again on “The One True Death” with eerie bass lines and curious snare march that leads into a devastating finale that has built up over its eight minutes. A nice gritty fast track ends the album with rampaging double bass and a totally brilliant pace change which is just genius. A superb death metal album that delivers exactly what you want, no frills deathliness with no fancy trickery on the production or mix, just death, plain and simple, to quote a Paganizer song.
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Martin Harris
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