Dismember
Death Metal

THE REVIEW

Dismember: Death Metal. That could already be enough; but I'll add a few words.

The band name and the title of the work immediately provide the musical coordinates of the fourth album by the Swedes; complemented by artwork that is rather explicit in that sense. With skulls and gruesome images also scattered in the booklet; a solemn and furious declaration of intent.

The previous album "Massive Killing Capacity" had seen the band exploring more melodic paths; with the new work, they return to old school Death Metal. Crushing guitars akin to Entombed, impressive speed, abyssal growl vocals; war, blood, immense violence are the themes of the lyrics. A compressed, compact, and beastly album: the last uncompromising offering by Dismember; followed by an honorable decline nonetheless.

Production and mixing entrusted to drummer Fred Estby; deliberately dark and raw sounds. A sequence of hallucinatory tracks without much concern for various technicalities. They don’t need it.

"Of Fire", "Trendkiller", "Misanthropic", "Let The Napalm Rain": the first four songs are something shocking, rarely heard before, not just referencing the band but the entire extreme Metal of those years. A dozen virulent, bone-crushing, and eardrum-shattering minutes.

The album proceeds in the same demonic manner, try listening to the colossal blows of "Killing Compassion" (ONE HUNDRED TEN seconds of pure terror), leading up to the melodic swerve of "Silent Are The Watchers" with that main guitar riff and related Maiden-esque solos!!

It closes with "Mistweaver": they slow the pace without losing a gram of heaviness and compactness. A track with sepulchral Doom movements.

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