One cool album and they were gone. Tokyo's Transgressor were old school doom/death metal that quite morbidly combines deathly speed with guttural and stuffy gloom. 'Ether...' sits at the opposite end of the scale to Church of Misery, and has more in common with late '80s and early '90s death metal than anything Sabbathesque, but that doesn't stop this album from being a real menace to society, particularly in the Autopsy-styled chugs and gurgled, guttural vocals. The likes of 'Limbless Doom' melt together that varying pace to give off a real foul air of doom, but for the most part 'Mortal Agony,' is of that Autopsy nature, the sort of stifling sound that after just one listen you'll be scraping it off the bottom of your shoe. A gritty, almost fuzzed out guitar sound is accompanied by embryonic drums, surely making Trangressor's only full-length journey one to find. Great album cover too.
7.5/10
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