The Supreme Ugliness

There is definitely nothing novel to this release. You may find it stale and secondary to some of your favourite bands' stuff if you are a death metal fan. I did not expected anything worth mentioning from this effort. I gave it a listen just because I liked the bandname and the cover. Nevertheless, these hot Finnish guys astonished me. They managed to mold a candy of what had seemed to be a piece of shit.

The songs themselves are, as you can tell from the review's name, dumb and repetitive, but the other things about the release described below make up for this flaw. The album begins with a slowpaced instrumental intro in order to prepare listener's neck for banging and warm it up a little. The next track has the pace closer to a frequency of a swinging head sticking from a thick neck so headbanging begins spontaneously just because it will be in contradiction with laws of nature if it doesn't. Most part of the songs is of the same pace, it gets slower or faster (and somewhere turns into blast-bits) here and there in order to make your head bang with another frequency and not let it get in resonance, take off and fly away. Some solos added to dilute old-school monotony are simple but fit to the atmosphere. Vocals are thick and inarticulate but I don't count it bad, because it erases any of its human features (I distinguished no word while was listening) and it occurs to you that the vocalist must be the one who rapes the skull in the picture. Another important component is the sound. It is raw, heavy and juicy and I believe it beats that of some old bands which deserved a cult status.

Sum up. We have here an old school death release with all necessary to be old school. But the release date deprives this band of a chance to leave a trace in history of metal. However, it's good to be a soundtrack to a mass slaughter that you may decide to commit one day or scare your girlfriend/granny/school teacher/pocket hamster. Give it a try, maybe you will like it.