From the early days of death metal, a hybrid of Sarcofago and Deicide adds its own flavor through a modern death metal style internal dialogue of riffs producing moments of great clarity from seemingly random visions of darkness.

The best death metal does this of course: it takes a few fragments of a scene, turns them into a living narrative, then has them fight it out and become a churning conflict that resolves itself not through human morality but supremacy of higher relevance to the end result.

While the percussion follows more of a European style akin to that of proto-underground bands, guitars clearly aspire to an Incantation or Immolation style of protracted, contorted riffs that give these demos a resonant feral obscurity.

Available through Headsplit Records.

Tags: death metal, diabolus