NUCLEAR BLAST
Greece’s symphonic death metal conductors keep the wheels spinning
THE SEPTICFLESH STORY is well established by now. They formed in 1990, darted through every death metal subgenre under the sun to see what would stick, then split in 2003, citing commitments to their higher education. They returned five years later with Communion – an orchestral black/death fireball so destructive, heavy and grandiose that it could have soundtracked the apocalypse itself. What’s come since is a decade and a half in the same mode, with strings and choirs swelling over chugging riffs and Seth Siro Anton’s roars.
Modern Primitiveis more of the same. always been Sotiris Vayenas’ clean singing. It’s his pipes that are behind biggest earworm, belting out an instantly replayable during the title track, and they hammer home the hook of
