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Not too shabby! - 75%
When the first notes hit your ear drums, you wonder what you've gone and spent your money on. The sound is quite thin, and at times scrappy. But it does grow on you, particularly the guitars, which grind away with a lovely old school death metal buzz saw feel. As the riffs start to flow, backed up by perfectly adequate drums, you start to feel you've got a nice blackened death metal release in your hands. There are blasting lead passages, chugging and grinding death sections, but the guitar work is mostly in the death metal vein.
The vocals provide the blackening, straying here and there from the death metal sound to vary the atmosphere, at times reminding of Carcass, others of Gorgoroth. These are backed by eerie synth work at times, carefully placed just within ear shot, tastefully low in the mix.
The artwork is nice enough, a strange concoction of human and plant like forms, in a musky green, a colour you can imagine permeating the heady swamp like brew of death metal on offer in this short, but sweat 20 minutes of metal.
