Untory
The Roots Of Pestilence

THE REVIEW

This album is short, it deserved further development, like for example "So Far, So Good, So... What?" by Megadeth. But no, it stops there, ten tracks including instrumental interludes and an old song from 1995. In total, barely half an hour. It's a shame, some albums you wish would last all day. But the downsides of this release end here.

The new album from the Palermo-based band Untory, with the resounding and successful title "The Roots Of Pestilence" comes in an elegant digipack package that has little to envy from much more famous products. It is a new beginning for the band, a new lineup that tries to give continuity to the Untory name, on the scene since the distant 1990s. Skipping the unnecessary intro, a dissonant and sharp guitar riff (a similar solution is also adopted in the track "Untory") opens the title track, which moves on coordinates close to the latest Immolation regarding the impetuous drumming and to Trey Azagtoth of Morbid Angel for the solos.

As we continue through the tracklist, we also find more intense moments that will undoubtedly capture the fans of Cannibal Corpse, all played, however, with an almost clinical guitar style (again Immolation). The screaming is very effective and piercing, the growling a bit less so, sometimes too human to impress someone in 2011. The production is decidedly good, of course, we don't have the sounds that Erik Rutan puts in his explosive products (listen to the last two Cannibal Corpse albums), but on a national level and dealing with a band trying to restart almost from scratch one could not ask for better.

ON AND ON SOUTH OF ITALY!