Death & Beyond

The second album by the San Salvador-located death/thrash formation delivers us, especially for fans of old school, some really pleasant moments. The 9 tracks of "Death & Beyond" are combining the appropriate guide back to the glorious times of thrash & death metal, the genres that ruled the earth in their essential form during the 80s and 90s.

This is the first band from El Salvador that I have the pleasure to listen to and review and I have to admit I really like what they do and how they do. Pure underground music is this, which has been done with total dedication & respect to the aforementioned times and bands of the past decades.

The entire material on "Death & Beyond" and even their instruments sound the way it was supposed to sound exceptionally back in the 80s and the first half of the 90s, so no polished modern plastic sound is there. Such song titles as "This is Underground", "Worship the Old Ways" or "Summoning the Graves" plus the devilish cover artwork are proving to you once again that this band's dedication is focused on the musical, lyrical and visual heritages of the past not the present or future.

I've really enjoyed listening to the old-fashioned but really up to date musical approach of Conceived by Hate and am looking forward to experience their third full-length instalment in the very near future. Diehard underground freaks should definitely invest into this piece of CD! I will repeat, it's worth every penny, so don't fool around, better order it right now!

Originally published at the website of Encomium 'zine.