This time around, the three way split is between Mumakil, Obtuse and Third Degree and offers up a sweet array of grinding, pummeling metal in the form of 19 hell raising tracks in just under 38 minutes.
The straight foward brutal death metal barely contained in the nine tracks on this disc are sickeningly awesome in every facet — from the guttural growls to the unrelenting drums to the gag reflex inducing lyrics.
With this latest release, Fall of Serenity, prove that they are not another lamb in the melodic death metal flock. Their renewed efforts show that the genre is far from stale and a band can certainly set themselves apart from the crowd with a little effort
Each and every track on Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption is beyond heavy in every sense of the term — crushing riffs, pulverizing rhythms and vocals straight from the very bowels of hell.
Taking cues from their past releases and their overall influences, Cursed's III: Architects of Troubled Sleep is full of anti-social vitriol and noise filled, grinding hardcore. Prepare to be bulldozed.
Engel's Absolute Design has a very rich and dynamic sound, but falls short of what most metal heads were expecting from the band. It's heavily influenced by alternative rock and progressive metal, steering well clear of the death metal aspect of its melodic death label.
Who wold have thought that desolate as fuck, crusty black metal like this could have come from three petite rockers from Japan. Ill Innocence feels like a wet towel wrapped around your head, slowly depriving you of oxygen — suffocating and bleak indeed.
Martriden employs all the tricks of the trade and their influences to deliver an album chock full of black metal mastery while still retaining their own personality in the music. The mixture of ferocity and dramatic elements really makes for a great listening experience.
Averse Sefira's Advent Parallax is a churning, driving mass of black metal that has plenty of power, creativity and groove to keep your head firming planted to the speakers — head banging away like a mad man.
Hemlock's fluid blend of thrash, sludge and melodic elements really make them a force to be reckoned with on No Time for Sorrow. It's a fully engaging and entertaining album that just about any metal fan should be throwing the horns to.