Ruptured Birth - Transmutant

Artist: Ruptured Birth
Release Title: Transmutant
Year: 2016
Label: CDN Records
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
Tracklisting:
1. Saprogenic
2. Strogg
3. Projectile Copremisis
4. Blood Siren
5. Nuclear Marauders
6. The Shape
7. Transmutant
8. Vomit Drop
9. Unnatural Selection

Formed in the summer of 2014, Canadian slammers Ruptured Birth have quite quickly taken a prominent role amongst the community by offering a highly-competent science fiction-based attack to their tight, technical slam-infused brutality. Quickly releasing their first EP and now joined by Aaron Cividino handling bass guitar duties, the quartet issues their debut full-length September 28 on CDN Records.

From the very start here, the band clearly and quite comfortably takes their technically-proficient brand of brutal death metal and slam through a very engaging whole. Offering forth a never-ending whirlwind here of tight, pummeling slams and breakdowns fueled through a ferocious blend of dexterous riffing, slow lurching crawls and a fine sense of blasting drumming to compliment the fine slams featured throughout the rhythms here. Still, there’s a more impressive focus here on introducing all these fine slams to a science fiction aesthetic that’s built more upon far more technical and twisting rhythms that drops the slamming pretence for quite more straightforward brutal death here, and these result in far more superior and enjoyable elements by wrapping around quite a bit more enjoyable elements within their basic framework-style slams and tight, chugging rhythms, and with the technical and the brutal landing together side-by-side this is quite an enjoyable release. There’s very little about this music that’s all too original or brings about any additional revelations within the music, which isn’t a terrible facet to this one but it gets extrapolated here with the endless overlong closing epic that doesn’t really do much for the album as a whole here with the nonsensical sci-fi leanings and pointless meandering that stretches the song out way past the fifteen-minute mark. It’s really the only thing otherwise that holds this one back with all the other enjoyable elements on display.

While it does get docked somewhat for some rather questionable overlong material in an otherwise enjoyable and vicious album, that doesn’t really deter this one all that much as the vast amount of enjoyable work on display here makes this quite an appealing and worthwhile effort for slam fans or brutal death metal in general.

Score: 85/100

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Rotting Repugnancy - Harbingers of the Last Judgement

Artist: Rotting Repugnancy
Release Title: Harbingers of the Last Judgement
Year: 2016
Label: CDN Records
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Tracklisting:
1. Desert Storm
2. Exhalted Throne
3. Despised and Rejected
4. Hollow Beast
5. And the Day Shall Dawn with Fire
6. Tears that Fill My Bones
7. Godless World
8. Koventrieren

Founded in late 2010, UK brutal death metal upstarts Rotting Repugnancy has established themselves as one of the finest British death metal bands with plenty of solid releases through Sevared Records and a relentless tour schedule. This second full-length album, initially an independent release December 21, 2015 before a March 25th, 2016 reissue on new-label CDN Records, this release packs another strong punch for the group on their way to the top of the genre.

There’s a lot to really like overall about this one, and it takes centerstage here with the explosive and dynamic riffing. Featuring the tight swirling rhythms and deep, frenetic paces that offer up plenty of rather dynamic churning patterns that go along mixing the schizophrenic blasting with a thrashy, old-school attack in terms of tempos and cadence. That’s a far more pummeling attack than would be expected here as the steady paces keeps the churning patterns flowing along into the album’s varied approaches with those up-tempo thrash-like paces or into slower, deep churning grooves which take the brutal rhythms into a sluggish realm which is quite fun when it rev up those slower patterns into far more impactful and blistering realms. This slow, churning approach alongside the tight riff-work makes for another solid plus in that there’s more variety than expected here rather than just the blitzkrieg approach of most modern brutal death metal acts is a rather nice approach and really sets this one up with a heavy yet brutal approach for an overall fun time. The biggest problem here is a common one that plagues a lot of these albums in the fact that there’s just not enough tracks here, with the running list finishing off when it gets enjoyable with the band setting into a solid groove on the second half. Choosing only eight tracks overall does make this fly by in a blur and really doesn’t cause this one to really work to it’s overall potential since it’s just over when it’s getting good. However, with this being the main problem here leaves this one with a rather enjoyable attack overall.

As it’s another rather fun and enjoyable effort that really does have a lot to like overall here in terms of the music but which runs afoul of the slightly-detrimental action of not having enough music really isn’t that big of a deal and puts this into high regard for fans of brutal death metal or those looking for more old-school-flavored acts.

Score: 86/100

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Pit of Carnage - The Rise of the Fallen King

Artist: Pit of Carnage
Release Title: The Rise of the Fallen King
Year: 2016
Label: CDN Records
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Tracklisting:
1. Feed the Machine
2. The Rise of the Fallen King
3. Obsession of a God
4. Pile of Corpses
5. Bring It On
6. Leviathan I
7. Leviathan II
8. Reflections of Desire
9. Voids of the Abyss
10. Walking the Shadows

Founded in 2013, Danish brutal death metallers Pit of Carnage came together because of a need to go heavier and more brutal than their previous bands and settled on a two-person line-up of GoreDrummer and Kasper Hansen. When that fizzled following the debut release, GoreDrummer took over all other instruments while bringing Peter Juelsgaard for bass-duties and unleashed this second opus August 3rd, 2016 on CDN Records.

Blasting out with fervent vigor and intense rhythms, the effort really showcases the tight and frantic rhythms that are given plenty of space to drag out the deep, crunchy riff-work. Utilizing thunderous drumming into tight, blasting rhythms along a sea of swirling, somewhat-technical riffing brings along the brutality here through the rather dynamic series of tempos throughout here, going for either the slow, ominous crawl or offering up faster, rabid rhythms that take full advantage of the thunderous pounding and deep-set bass-lines all the while letting the swirling technicality in the riff-work take over here. Charging alongside this fine work is a slower section of plodding atmospheric sprawling chug that’s somewhat at odds with the remaining part of their sound but is still a highly enjoyable aspect here that features some rather tight, crunchy work on display here that helps in the brutality regard even with the stagnant tempos off-setting the much more ferocious work elsewhere here. In essence that itself seems to be the only real downfall of the album is this rather stilted pacing when it drops the faster blasting for the sprawling chug, and once this gets back into those more favorable tempos there’s a lot of great material here that’s quite enjoyable. The decision to split up the two-piece instrumental tracks when it could’ve worked solidly as one is a slightly questionable one, but as for the music it’s not that big of an issue.

Overall this here is quite an enjoyable blast of brutal death metal that definitely gets plenty of its better moments once it really goes for the kill instead of standing back and trying to crush the listener with slower tempos, leaving this one to really appeal mostly to ardent fanatics of European brutal death metal or less discernable death metal fans.

Score: 83/100

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