Entrails – World Inferno

Reinier de Vries — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 16:59:53 +0000

Entrails was formed in 1990, around he same time as bands such as Entombed, Grave and Dismember. Strangely enough, they never recorded a demo and then went on hiatus. In 2008, the band was resurrected by Jimmy Lundqvist. Since then, they have released albums on a rather regular basis.

For some reason, I am a huge fan of the Swedish death metal sound. The low tuned riffs in combination with the typical, sometimes almost danceable, groovy rhythms is something you can wake me up for. The first albums of Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, Cancer, Carnage, and Grave are blue prints for this genre. On the new album, World Inferno, Entrails just does what those bands did on their first album(s). There are no new elements, or anything you wouldn’t expect. For me that is the power of this new release. There is no need to mention a particular song, they are all good and the way old school Swedish death metal should sound like.

Perhaps some will say that it is just old wine in new bottles, but better good old wine in new bottles than new bad wine in old ones!

Nervochaos – Nyctophilia

Reinier de Vries — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:03:53 +0000

When I found a bunch of cd’s in the mail, sent by one of my review colleagues, this album of Nervochaos wasn’t the first that I payed attention to. The dark blue-ish cover artwork with tombstones and the name of the band did not make me very enthusiastic. Also, the genre on the info sheet, extreme metal, made me think this wasn’t an album for me! Therefore, after I listened to several other cd’s first, I put this one in the player. Since then, this is one of my favorite blackened death albums this year. Somehow, I missed all the six albums before Nyctophilia, but I think I will be looking for some soon.

This Brazilian combo does everything right. The mix of blackened death/thrash is worked out by Nervochaos to perfection. There is groove, they are extreme, they have an evil sound, the vocals sound aggressive and guttural, and the mix of different extreme music styles sounds quite original. I hear so many influences of bands in their style that I can’t mention them all. Below you find a YouTube link to the second track ‘Ritualistic,’ immediately one of my favorite tracks after the first spin. The riffs and atmosphere has some old Carcass and the Swedish death metal style. Bands like Pungent Stench and Mortuary Drape also enter my mind. Later on there are tracks reminding me of Morbid Angel, but also many Swedish death metal influences appear in ‘World Aborted.’ The third track has some Celtic Frost-like parts in it, but also a lot of groove. Almost dance-able is the groovy part in ‘Live Like Suicide,’ which also gets my approval.

Again, this proves for me that I can’t judge a book by its cover. This is a very welcome piece of music this month, and if you like both songs below, don’t hesitate to buy your copy.

Swedisch Death Metal – Power Of Metal.dk

Entrails – World Inferno

Nervochaos – Nyctophilia