Supreme Pain, Cadaver Pleasures
Combining modern death metal with an old school feel, Supreme Pain’s debut full length from Comatose Music will fuel your inner hellion with more than enough demonic and corpse imagery for you can handle. Featuring Sinister lead growler Aad Kloosterwaard on vocals, Supreme Pain layer riff after unholy riff upon the next in a heaping mass of crushing death metal fury.
In additional to Aad’s deep, guttural vocals guitarist/bassist Erwin Harremena and fellow ax man Bas Brussard combine raw, combustible riffs with intense leads to near perfection. The combination of the two, trading riff for riff leave no room for error as they shred sinew and flesh with ease. Drummer Robert Kovacic not only rounds out the group, but provides richter shaking blasts and fills with heavy handed destruction. Add to the mix a top notch production and you’ve got another great debut release through Comatose Music.
Blood of the Chosen
“Blood of the Chosen” starts out with a series of sound clips to build some atmosphere during the first 40 seconds of the track before heavy drumming and dueling riffs open with a quickness. Aad’s vocals are powerful and show great range as his relatively understandable guttural growls mix with higher end screams and shouts. The rolling drums only prove to push the listener along at a brisk pace as the rest of the band bludgeon from all directions. All hell breaks loose at the 3 minute mark with flesh searing riffs and animalistic drum work.
Drowned in Hate
This next song picks up where the opener left off with bruising guitar work and bone battering rhythms. There are plenty of tempo shifts through out “Drowned in Hate” to keep you fully entertained. I love the slow down right before the two minute mark. It’s got a madman’s methodical feel to it as he stalks his next victim. This track has a violent, aggressive nature to it.
Souleater
“Souleater” begins with light drum work and some big riffs that give it a soul eating god like feel. The band picks up the pace after the first 3 seconds yet keep a great flow and groove to the song. The listener is submerged into a sea of churning currents and crushing depths as the vocals come in. Aad’s vocals feel even deeper on this track than the previous two.
Cadaver Pleasures
The title track greets the listener in a fury of demonic chaos and crushing death metal. The vocals are delivered with a more deliberate nature giving it a boost in their already powerful nature. Several tempo shifts will twist and break bone through the first minute and a half alone. The guitar work at the 1:30 mark is pretty slick. I love this line in the lyrics right after a tremendous lead, “I am the reaper of fools. I am the tool of vengeance.” Sweet.
Room of Stench
“Room of Stech” could very well have been emblazoned above my dorm room in college. I’m not sure that the three of us ever picked up or cleaned that hole of a room for the year we were confined to its walls. I seriously doubt that the band was thinking of me when they wrote this slowly building monstrosity of a track. A crushing veil of doom envelopes the listener through the first 3:45 of the songs length. At that point the pace picks up a bit with bruising riffs and drums.
Flesh Collector
An evil as hell riff and lead open up several wounds within the first 30 seconds of this one. This is one aggressive as hell song. There are a bunch of sound clips that fill the track as well as another great series of leads at the two minute mark.
Lifeless Skin and Bones
The title for this next one aptly describes a few of the folks that I have to work with on occasion. “Lifeless Skin and Bones” starts out with memorable riffing before descending into madness with pummeling drums and guttural vocals. Several tempo changes fill this one as the pace soars to flesh ripping speeds and back to bone crushing slowness the next. There is an insane lead just before the 3:30 mark.
Visions of Tyranny
The final track is also the longest, weighing in at over eight minutes in length. It starts off with sick riffs and unrelenting blasts from the drums. The two minute mark has some crazy guitar work that sounds like it’s coming from a sealed coffin. It’s an interesting effect. I hope you’re buckled in for one hell of a ride on the lead at the 3:45 mark. The chugging breakdown at the 4:40 is an awesome addition to a stellar track. Warfare sound clips come in toward the end of the song and, well, the track was powerful enough without them — they just get in the way.
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With Cadaver Pleasures, Supreme Pain unleash upon the unsuspecting an album that combines old school death metal elements with more modern brutal influences to build their furious and powerful wall of death. The eight tracks on this album are comprised of crushing riffs, flesh searing solos and bruising rhythms — all entwined upon each other to produce one hell of a debut album.
Favorite Tracks:
All of them
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