4/22/18

VALGRIND (Ita) Seal of phobos MCD. 2017. Everlasting spew recs.


I enjoyed a lot the first album of this Italian Death metal band, because of all the moods, old school atmospheres it contained, and the early IMMOLATION influences.
Then they released a second album which was different, more brutal and influenced by old MORBID ANGEL, but I wasn't able to really dissect the content because of musical overload :-)
Now the band is back with a new MCD that roughly follows the same path.
This is death metal very influenced by old MORBID ANGEL, early HATE ETERNAL (First album), with something a bit more technical from here and there that might remember of old BRUTALITY or perhaps old EMPEROR ("IX Equilibrium" minus the synths), some EULOGY (Usa) or maybe old PESTILENCE when it gets a bit more thrashy.
The BRUTALITY influence might be a bit more important than what I pointed out, sometimes the riffs coming with a little touch of "melody" and some great sounding riffs that also take some "melody" (And don't sound like the chaotic hell of old Trey Azagtoth for example) bring an interesting plus of "beauty" into the whole.
Some peoples might also hear similarities with FLESHTIZED (Especially the demo from 2006) or perhaps some older releases of AURORA BOREALIS (Usa).
This is pretty neat, with well-built songs; Some leads are great and it's a solid sounding MCD, but I still prefer the first album "Morning will come no more" because of the atmospheres (But I think it's logical since this a part of this said album was composed of old songs written in the 90's).
A quite good recording. 
https://valgrindband.bandcamp.com

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