Horrendous
Ecdysis

Hello to all debaserian users, with this I am about to write my first review, first ever, I have never written any on other sites or portals. But now let's talk about music, I would like to draw your attention to the second album of Horrendous, Ecdysis released in 2014, a young American band, but which plays a traditional Death Metal style that is more Swedish/European than that of their native land. Traditional Death we said, but not too much, in fact their greatest quality is to be traditional, but to be so in a very personal and unpredictable way, as they enrich their offering with melodies taken from classic Metal and for the purely Death side they draw more from Sweden as I said, but also from pre-Human Death. An album that requires careful listening as Horrendous take the song form and decompose it at their pleasure, but the tracks are by no means inconclusive, they all have their own personality, and alternate parts where aggressiveness leads the way, also thanks to a growl singing in a medium-high and raucous tone, to more considered and atmospheric parts where the class of these musicians is noticeable. In short, a band with a marked personality, a rare commodity today, even more so in a genre like old school Death Metal, where you can also hear good albums, but which are usually not more than not-so-veiled tributes to various Entombed, Dismember, early Death etc. etc. So my recommendation for lovers of such sounds is to listen to Ecdysis, as it is a very valid and interesting album in its unpredictability, meanwhile I give it a 4.5, rounded to 5!