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Pestilence

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Dutch death-metal band formed in the mid-1980s, noted for moving from thrash origins to progressive/technical death metal and for influential early-1990s albums such as Testimony Of The Ancients and Spheres.

Pestilence is publicly known as a Dutch band influential in technical/progressive death metal, with key albums including Consuming Impulse (1989), Testimony Of The Ancients (1991) and Spheres (1993). Reviews document a stylistic shift toward jazz-influenced arrangements in the early 1990s and mixed reception for reunion-era releases.

DeBaser reviews praise Pestilence's early and 1990s work (Testimony Of The Ancients, Spheres, Consuming Impulse) for innovation and musicianship. Reunion-era albums (Resurrection Macabre, Doctrine) receive criticism for perceived decline. Reviews highlight the band's shift from thrash roots to jazz-influenced progressive death metal.

For:Fans of technical/progressive death metal; listeners interested in 1990s metal and experimental death-jazz.

 WONDERFUL.

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 Raw, rotten, brutal.

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 a sort of hybrid between a Eurasian mallard in heat and the sound a pig makes before being slaughtered.

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 Testimony ... is surely their most solid, intense, and elaborate work,

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