after publishing in these last days two live reports (one about a doom metal night with Abysmal Grief, and the other about a HC punk festival called Marci su Roma), today I am back with the reviews' attack by talking about 3 death metal-oriented albums: 2 of them were released by the Russian prolific label Satanath Records, and the third one by the Spanish Memento Mori. So, let's start and...
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Title: Demoniac Paroxysm
Genre: Death Metal
Time: 35.35 min
Release Date: 22nd October 2018
Label: Memento Mori
Rating: 80/100
These 4 Mexican demons called Morbid Messiah amazed me with their first demo "In the Name of True Death Metal" (reissued last year by Godz ov War Productions, which sent me one month ago circa a new pack of interesting physical CDs in order to review them). And, not surprisingly, they amazed me again with their debut album full of 9 new songs titled "Demoniac Paroxysm", that had the honour to be released by one of the best labels specialized on the old-school death metal: Memento Mori!
The result of this demented collaboration gave birth to something that surely lacks in variety but exceeds in evilness. In fact, prepare to be slowly devoured by an album that express a raw, cruel, fast and dark death metal made more terrific not only by the cavernous growls, alternated with some chilling screams, of José Rivas, but also by the few noisy guitar solos of Roberto Trejo.Believe me, this band spew forth a total massacre, especially into songs like "Crawling in Guts" and "Fetid Bloodbath", and expressing all this fury by playing very very few blast-beats! And believe me that Morbid Messiah are also true masters in creating a completely evil atmosphere able to shock the listeners through doom metal solutions. This happens, for example, in the intro "Rise of the Rottenness" and, above all, in the double closing 7-minute song "Morbid Messiah/Morbid Invocation", that ends the album with the maximum of wickedness also thanks to an amazing vocal "solo" in the middle by the same José!
Sadistic Intent, Grotesque, Treblinka/early Tiamat, Autopsy, Machetazo...if you like all this shit, then grab your copy of "Demoniac Paroxysm"! You'll not be disappointed by this Mexican cult, so, let your souls be devoured by the darkness summoned by Morbid Messiah!
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/morbidmessiahofficial
Memento Mori: http://www.memento-mori.es/
Title: Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation
Genre: Black/Death Metal
Time: 33.15 min
Release Date: 17th April 2018
Labels: Satanath Rec/Sevared Rec
Rating: 78/100
Third album since their foundation in 2013 for Demonic Obedience, a trio operating in Edinburgh, Scotland, but whose members comes from three different countries (Greece, Germany, Poland).
The only flaw? The too weak sound of the drums, despite the excellent work by the session drummer Clark (but is he into the regular line-up of some bands? I asking this because I found no infos about him in any places).
In brief, "Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation" is a recommended album, also thanks to nice solos, included one played by Achilleas, the man that produce the Demonic Obedience releases since the beginning.
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/demonicobedience
BandCamp: https://demonicobedience.bandcamp.com/
Satanath Records: http://www.satanath.com/
Sevared Records: https://store.sevared.com/
Title: Tales of Hate, Lust and Chaos
Genre: Death'n'Roll
Time: 40.24 min
Release Date: 16th April 2018
Labels: Satanath Rec/More Hate Prod
Rating: 84/100
From the guitar tone to the main influences, how much sound Swedish the second album by this Peruvian squad named Fervent Hate! And I think it isn't a case since it was mixed and mastered by nothing else than Dan Swanö!
More specifically, Fervent Hate combine continuously the early Swedish death metal with many doses of Gothenburg death metal à la At the Gates, and adding to this traditional formula hard rock and rock'n'roll influences. So, the variety is guaranteed throughout the 10 songs of this opus, if you think that you can find here not only merciless chainsaw riffs and blast-beat attacks but also moments with a dramatic sense of melody as well catchy rockish vibes even characterized by very groovy tempos. Plus, all this is brilliantly enriched by the work of Emilio Mora, who is truly able to move emotionally the listeners with his creative guitar solos which show sometimes wild influences from the early Metallica.
My favorite numbers? Surely, "Last Night of Pleasure", "Confessions" (that, at a certain point, see a dramatic spoken vocal part) and "Left Iron Fist". This last one is the most melodic song and also the most surprising due not only to a keyboard solo by the guest Maria Emilia Montoya but also to a guitar solo with elegant neoclassical touches.Some songs are less effective (like the closing track "Disinfection Aid" that has, anyway, great lines like "Imagine there's no humans, it isn't hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too") not being so spectacular like the aforementioned ones. Anyway, they don't ruin the good quality of an album that can be loved by the fans of bands like Entombed, Furbowl and At the Gates...and don't forget again that, behind this album, there is even Dan Swanö!
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/ferventhate
Satanath Records: http://www.satanath.com/
More Hate Productions: http://www.morehate.com/
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