Hate Eternal
Conquering the Throne
[Wicked World/Earache]


This quite anticipated release by a band featuring two famous death metallers (Doug Cerrito of Suffocation and Erik Rutan of Morbid Angel) leaves no disappointment whatsoever. The greater part of the album is blasting relentless death metal. All songs except three are written by Rutan, the others by Cerrito. Those three are of a slightly different style, somewhat repetitive and perhaps even more crushing than the others. The album pounds along every second, each song lasts about three minutes, as it should be with this kind of death metal. The music is not "techno death metal" but neither is it simple. Guitar leads are used sparsely yet tastefully and give a melodic turn to an otherwise merciless carpet bombing of your ears with double bass assaults, ingenious breaks, tortured grunts and frantic (!) backing vocals. This fucking rocks!! No stupid intros, no filler material, no compromise, just churning death metal. The small disc spins smoking in my CD player and slowly the ooze comes dripping out of my speakers, saturated with aural orgasms. Earache has regained some credit by releasing this and I hope this band will release many many more CD's.


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