back in the mid 00's a genre called deathcore was washed up on the shores of the interested listener. bands like job for a cowboy or whitechapel were bands of the first wave that more or less outgrew of their own invention. carnifex is a band that was among that first wave and their first two albums "dead in my arms" and "the diseased and the poisoned" (which never saw the vinyl treatment to all re-pressers out there) were pretty good and are standing on my cd shelf. i catched them live back then and boy, they were a blast.
after these two, the third record "hell chose me" never found its way into my possession. that was because of a time were money was pretty tight and i had to source out very carefully what i should buy or not. since then i lost track of them. i mean, i heard of the release of "until i feel nothing" in 2011 but wasn't really interested to listen to it.
they even went on hiatus as i read about in the label's print magazine blast!. but now they are back with a vengeance. i saw this record up in the new section at nuclear blast shop when i was looking for new stuff. and i was thinking back and forth if i should get this or not. i checked some songs on the net and they were good, sure, but good enough to put money towards this? the answer was yes obviously. and i'm glad i did.
after repeated listenings this thing rips from start to finish. of all those deathcore veterans, carnifex are the closest to their roots, which is in their case a good thing. old school death metal tunes, some black metal hints, the right dose of breakdowns and scott lewis's sick voice make for a fantastic modern death metal record. check "dragged into the grave". killer! and the colour way is really nice too. it's not the promised pink, more a lilac which looks lovely held up against the light. 100 copies made. nuclear blast records / cargo records. 2014.
