Pestilence – “Resurrection Macabre”
released April 14, 2009 on Mascot Records
Well it’s been about 15 years since Spheres, and just like their Floridian technical death metal brethren, Atheist and Cynic, they reformed and are producing new original material. Don’t expect any of those atmospheric keyboards or jazz fusion that surfaced on their last output; this is some seriously blistering death metal. The production is a full-on head crush, with keen attention to overall clarity on guitar and vocals. This is not surprising, since mainman Patrick Mameli wrote the whole album. It’s played at a mostly breakneck pace, but we do get some tempo changes in places. The title track and “Fiend” have well-added dimension to the density, but in places like “HangMan” and “Y2H” the ideas don’t seem to gel as well. The album also includes a trio of fan-picked re-recordings from their first three albums. A most welcome return for the Dutch masters, who will likely be laying pandemic waste to our tech death landscape in the future. I wonder which plague they’ll choose…?
FCC OK
Try 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13
01. Devouring Frenzy
02. Horror Detox
03. Fiend
04. Hate Suicide
05. Synthetic Grotesque
06. Neuro Dissonance
07. Dehydrated II
08. Resurrection Macabre
09. Hangman
10. Y2H
11. In Sickness & Death
12. Chemo Therapy (bonus track)
13. Out Of The Body (bonus track)
14. Lost Souls (bonus track)
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~ Matt Longo
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