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Liturgy Of Ritual Execution

United States Country of Origin: United States

1. Descent Into The Forlorn Chambers
2. Oubliette
3. Defilement Of Mortal Purity
4. Fermented In Existential Terror
5. Kyphonism
6. Rädern
7. Epoch Of Suffering
8. Thrones Of The Slain
9. Judas Cradle (Brodequin Cover)


Review by Elijah on June 13, 2020.

If you use streaming services to listen to music, please do yourself a favor and check out any of the bands in the similar artists section of whatever band you're currently listening to, that's how I found this fantastic album. A tip for everyone: search around in the similar artists, you may find yourself an underground masterpiece!

The album has a perfect guitar tone, similar to the tone on Defeated Sanity's album "Passages Into Deformity" but with a more buried sound. It creates more heaviness and layers of brutality within the songwriting. The drumming done by female drummer Cindy Chaco is fantastic and absolutely talented. Proper and flawless blast beats, tempo changes, fills, everything. It's also very rare to have a female member in a brutal death metal band like this, so props to her for being a great drummer and keeping this shit real!

The vocals are similar to Omnipotent Hysteria and Wormed. Embodiment Torment is another band with top notch playing + songwriting accompanied by nasty gutturals that focus the music on having a nasty, yet professionally crafted sound. As soon as I heard the music I was INSTANTLY reminded of the band 01101111011101100110111001101001. The guitars sound very similar, I guess 0110111 took influence from this band, because the guitar tone/sound are nearly the same. This album reminds me of 01101111, but on crack.

Bass is worth mentioning, on albums like these it's usually more hearable, it sure is here. I forgot which song it was, but there was a part where everything stopped playing and the bass shined for a few seconds, like how the bass does on the Origin song 'The Aftermath' at 00:31 seconds. Not the SAME but it's pretty similar.

A+ guitar tone, clanky snare, consistent drumming, audible bass, nasty gutturals; yet again another brutal death metal album that IS THE entire package! If you enjoy albums like "Abattoir of Slain Deities", "Planisphærium", "Agonized Wails of Disseverment", "Desolated Realms Through Iniquity", "S/2004s3", etc. You will love this album. Another new kickass brutal death metal album that I love and will jam often, as well as another band I'm adding to the list of the bands that I know. Great record! This is brutal death metal at its best right here! Listen to this, highly recommended!

Rating: 10 out of 10

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