It’s not about giving up a ferocity that’s helped make them a household name among the converted. Instead, Necrot uses that same, by-now-characteristic intensity as the backdrop for an expanded songwriting palette. They’ve always been a band who stood out. The maturity they show on Lifeless Birth confirms that’s been the plan all along. It is a vision of what metal can be and do in 2024, tearing down old barriers and keeping those traditional elements that make it stronger.

Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Greg Wilkinson — who has helmed all three Necrot albums — and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Lifeless Birth pivots fluidly between technical intricacy, progressive poise and all-out brutality. Scouring lead work will have thrash heads nodding knowingly, and an overarching groove reaches out across the metal microgenres with a righteous call to worship. Its songs are memorable and varied, unpretentious but able to rear up with statelier violence. At the same time, “Drill The Skull,” “Cut The Cord,” “The Curse” and others prove that just because a song is beating you into the ground doesn’t mean it can’t also be forward-thinking. Or catchy.

“The last few years have been tough for us and pretty much for everyone,” notes Indrio. “The result is Lifeless Birth, our most aggressive album so far, but at the same time also the most melodic. We have always been progressing as a band and I think this is our full maturity stage. We have been Necrot for thirteen years now, we work hard to continue doing what we do, and we have sacrificed a lot to it. We want to give our contribution to what metal is and will be, we don’t want to just pass by unnoticed. We want to live our mark and so far, Lifeless Birth is without doubt our best effort.

The cover art is incredibly good, the concept of a hellish punishment where you spin around a demon waiting to be devoured by it and then be reborn from its mouth-vagina is without a doubt the most metal thing I've seen in a long time. Kudos to the originator of the idea and the artist.

Cut the Cord has been released as the first single:

the concept of a hellish punishment where you spin around a demon waiting to be devoured by it and then be reborn from its mouth-vagina is without a doubt the most metal thing I've seen in a long time.

This sounds about on par with the killer Mortal - maybe a little more melodic guitars, a little more diversity, which is cool to hear. They do sound like they're broadening the sound but in a natural way, just evolving the existing template rather than going out on a limb. I hear some spicing in of thrash and black metal shadings in the guitars - cool. On my second listen and it's just a great blast of fucking feral aggression.

I'd say this one is at least on par with the last one if not better, and I thought Mortal was better than Blood Offerings. Very satisfied with it.

The one with The Blade?Rather be Dead?

No way

It’s their best album

I disagree. Upon listening to all three again, the new one is by far the best in my opinion.