Dark, foreboding old school death metal from Swedish which comes complete with free indecipherable vocals from Satan's depths, and some interesting off-beat riffs with a true dense, old school sound. Very much basement metal - these guys had previously released a 5-track opus entitled 'Several Shapes' and ended their career with 1994's 'Lavatory'. Thankfully, this nine-track album doesn't sound all too Swedish, instead it opts for a lower guitar tone rather than the usual buzz-saw riffing we'd become accustomed to with bands such as Entombed and Dismember. For the most part the band shift between low-end guttural death metal and the occasional faster, yet still accessible layers of gloomy fog. The title track showcases both of these tempos with Tomas Lindorfs vocals being very much of that grisly bellowing variety. It's pretty much no thrills throughout but will certainly appeal to anyone who was used to lapping up this sort of horrifying mess back in the day. A cool little release for the death metal scene.
6.5/10
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