Now this is the motherfucking shit. When I want Death Metal I want fucking DEATH METAL and this is a disc that hits like a ten-ton truck full of drill bits and saw blades. You hear that buzzsaw guitar sound and it screams ENTOMBED at you, but then the quality of the riffs and the songwriting keeps you going. This is not just an Entombed ripoff, despite that unmistakable guitar sound. The riffs are much more straightforward, and there is just a touch of technicality in the heaviness that recalls bands like Sulphur Aeon or The Grotesquery. Mostly, this is just a heavy-as-fuck album of crushing Death Metal that crunches and hammers at you relentlessly, with just enough hookiness to the riffs to make it memorable. A savage and ruthless album with enough of an epic edge to make the Lovecraftian themes really fit the dark, oppressive mood. If you like Scandinavian or German Death Metal, you have heard this kind of thing before, but fuck these guys are doing it really well.
