Metal Hammer UK

FIRESPAWN

Abominate

CENTURY MEDIA

members of Entombed, Necrophobic and Unleashed amongst their ranks, but simply running through a checklist of old-school Swedish death metal clichés is the furthest thing, and 2017’s , finds their crisp, contemporary take on death metal coming into sharper focus, recalling the brash, brutish bludgeoning of latter-day Cannibal Corpse, the bombastic, arena-filling melodic refrains of Arch Enemy and, perhaps most frequently, vintage Morbid Angel; the twisting, Azagthoth-ian chugging on and the title track could have come straight from .

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