The Doom Skeptron

Finnish death metal used to be so bloody good back in the early 90's, it spawned many fantastic bands. And it doesn't matter than most of them were "one great album only" type of band. Sadly, next decade was not so kind for Finnish death metal, but that has finally changed in the late 00's, when another generation of death metal acts walked out of the catacombs. Let's just mention Lie In Ruins, Stench of Decay, Decaying, Claws, Hooded Menace, Gorephilia, Lantern, Corpsessed, Krypts and few more I forgot about now. There's also Desecresy, band, which was formed by couple of ex-Slugathor members. This band quickly gathered a solid support from death maniacs, and truly deserved it. Until 2019 they already have five albums recorded and here's one of them: "The Doom Spectron" from 2012.

This blue album (every Desecresy album has characteristic colour of the artwork) is probably my favourite work from them. All eight tracks show an intriguing combination of death metal brutality, with fast or mid paced stuff and great sections with death / doom influence, dark, gloomy atmosphere and a good dose of melody to achieve even more interesting and capturing result. With good balance between all these aspects of old school death metal, "The Doom Spectron" is an album, which is a feast to death metal fan. I really like how they create that almost haunting, abyssal atmosphere in the music, and that the atmosphere is probably a bit more important than the sheer aggression. Even in faster, more bestial songs like "Forged from Chaos" (which has a strong Incantation influence) there's room for slower, more harmonious and original riffage. There's occasion for blasting and brutal stuff in every song. But such "The Sleep of Titans" presents exactly what best Desecresy has to offer - bone crushing heaviness, bleak aura, eerie, quite memorable harmonies, beastly vocals... "Sons of the Burning God" is another fine example.

Songwriting on "The Doom Spectron" is awesome in its entirety, also lyrically this is very interesting material. No bad song, but dull parts. For me this is Desecresy’s best album, it definitely is much better than its follower “Chasmic Transcendence” for instance. A definite must to have for death metal maniacs.

Standout tracks: "The Sleep of Titans", "Sons of the Burning God"
Verdict: 80/100

As most of the modern death metal bands are letting the classic influences behind their back, there are many musical groups around the world that cant live without these classic influences and they cant record any music without reflecting these influences within the structure of the songs, one of these groups is the Finnish death metal band Desecresy.

Desecresy has presented the great debut album "Arches of Entropy" before two years, and there are a lot of death metal fans around the world kept their attention toward their second album, and now the band is back with the great full-length album "The Doom Skeptron". As the Finnish extreme metal scene is thriving with a lot of amazing bands in the last decade, the death metal movement misses the classic sound and the taste of the old school death metal because most of the death metal bands there are wearing the dress of melodic death and the melodic death/power numerously. Desecresy is proving for all the old school death metal bands around the world that Finland can also wear the dress of pure death metal with this amazing release.

The Doom Skeptron contains eight tracks full of real pure and classic death metal flavor, some of the tracks are flowing slow riffs and numbing drumming (like the track "The Solemn End), and some tracks like "Declined Resplendence" and "Burial Adorations" are sending shivers of blast-beating drums and killer bass-line to the spine of every listener. Many interesting elements have been placed into this record to make it look genuine and breathtaking, one of these elements is the gorgeous balance between the roughness of the melodies and the dynamics of the mastering, the tracks like "The Sleep of Titans" and "Vortex Unwinding" are great example for this glamorous balance.

The vocals of this album are deeply influenced by the old school death metal movement, and the bass-lines are vital enough to overtake the sledgehammer sound of the distorted guitars that capture most of the final atmosphere. I would recommend this album for all the fans who love the pure death metal music that doesn't need so much progressiveness and melodies to sound perfect, and I would also recommend this album for all those who are into the modern old school death metal movement that tries to restore the original death metal sound of the early 90s.

Overall, this album is a solid piece of classicism and intensity, if you are ready to put a lot of killer death metal riffs inside your ears then you have to get a copy for this album right now. I will be keeping my eyes on this band for the future, and I hope they will record more genuine and hammering riffs in the next releases.

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