Aren't You Dead Yet?

With their previous releases ‘Please... Die’ and ‘The More You Suffer’ Carnal Forge made it pretty clear to the world that they’re not merely a The Haunted-clone.
‘Aren’t you Dead Yet’ is allready the fifth album from the productive neo-thrashers, and once again it shows off a lovely mix of Slayer-aggression, Forbidden-precision, and Swedish melodism.

If you give much about originality, you’re pretty much at the wrong adress. The power of this band is in it’s fresh way of recycling 20 years of thrash metal.
Carnal Forge switches a rather effective way in between polka and melodic driven instrumental passages.
The opener “Decades Of Despair”, the brutal “The Strength of Misery” and the rather typical Scandinavian “Waiting for Sundown” most likely got it going because of their aggression and speed.
But with “My Suicide”, “Inhuman” and “Totally Worthless” the album also contains somewhat more outbalanced tracks, with recognizable vocal lines, smooth double bass tempos en fair is fair – a rather high ‘Season In the Abyss’ touch.

The above average growlhound Jonas Kjellgre smoothly growls all the riffs en tempos together and guards off Carnal Forge for even during the more mediocre musical timings to be remaining a rough and angry brutal band.
All in all, a very decent thrashalbum that just pumps up one’s ears.