Deicide: Insineratehym - This album along with In Torment In Hell are said to be the worst albums that Deicide ever released by many fans as well as the metal press. Many people have many different opinions about it but it's an amazing ablum if people really take the time to listen to it. With this album, nothing really changes as far as the basic elements of the band are concern. All of the basics are all retained. The music is still evil, haunting, pulverizing, heavy, brutal death metal but with more groove and teachnicality to it. Lyricallly, the band still maintains their satanic beliefs but with more emphesis on the corruption of Christainity and religion and other important issues as well as some smell appearances of the "Satan, Satan, Satan" thing here and there. So this is basically another improvement as the band enhances in their dark craft.
This one of the best classic death metal albums of the early 90's and a classic one it is indeed. One word that best discribes this album is scary and when you listen to it, your skin will freeze but at the same time, all of the heaviness, power, intensity, angry and brutality is not far behind. They just give a lot more dimention making the whole sound and atmostphere of the album more intimitating. So this isn't an album for the weak of heart... Read More...
Continuing with their obvious grind-era Carcass worship along with
early 90’s death metal influence (Cannibal Corpse and similar acts),
Exhumed have released their second album, which lives up to the band’s
name, as initially portrayed on their debut, ‘Gore Metal.’ Death metal
was not at its peak at the time of this release; on the contrary,
I’d say it was somewhat jaded. It was jaded from the endless death
metal clones that were constantly making music parallel to their
favorite bands – no new bands really stood out at all because we’d
all heard their material before they’d even released it. During the
time of the seemingly never ending clone bands, Exhumed decided
to step in and offer listeners another breath of fresh air, while
nuking all of the bastard bands by dropping the ‘Slaughtercult’
bomb on their armies. Now the majority of those bands are nothing
more than a bunch of bad ideas long forgotten. Read More...
Sinister: Cross The Styx - This is one of the best
death metal albums of the early 90's and it is a
classic one indeed. The best way to describe it is an
evil, satanic, skull crushing, pulverizing, heavy,
brutal death metal journey throughout Hell. You will
agree with that when you listen to it because this is
the vibe of the album. The lyrics are as evil as can
get and music however is just total heaviness and
brutality. It's a fine edition to a brutal death metal
maniac's collection. Completely recommended.
Choice Cuts: Perennial Mourning, Doomed, Cross The
Styx, Corridors To The Abyss and Putrefying Remains