entrails - raging death
ahh..., the fertile combination of music and art work. powerful indeed! again it helped me to investigate further behind this nice cover that looked like it held something inside i would like. so i checked the net if i can find some tunes belonging to this output. what i found was the first song of the record called '
in pieces'. and man it's a real scorcher! check for yourself. simple swedish death metal. just some new metal which i felt i really needed looking at the thin release stream this year.
listening to the album in whole, it cannot really hold on to the glory 'in pieces' promised. it's just a little too obvious. you know that reliable structure, verse-chorus-verse-chorus-break-chorus. and the lyrics are a bit too flat. i mean nothing against some snappy shouts like '
blood hammer - bringer of doom' (especially the word 'doom' was made for deep and dark grunting), but all the time? yeah, i know it's death metal and stuff but... ah well, judge for yourself.
but i don't want to sound too negative. because that's just not the way i feel about this record. really. i like it for what it is. solid swedish death metal that is. it probably just pales a bit in comparison to the black dahlia murder record i got in the same go. but again, it's an enjoyable listen! period!
the presentation however is out of the question. the inevitable gatefold sleeve with all the lyrics, black dust sleeve (which always look better than its white counterpart), a nice poster with the cover art in different colours (which will never feel the closeness of an embracing wall) and a really good looking vinyl colour. 350 copies of marbled 'azure'. and the pictures really do it justice this time, because they show that the colour changes a bit depending on the lighting situation. just like the azure blue sea in the sun. i'm feeling a bit romantic today, it seems. ha!
metal blade records. 2013.
