Review by Michael on November 11, 2025.

What happens when members from General Surgery, Internment, Necrophobic, Firespawn and Hellbutcher join to play some music together? Well, probably no Eminem cover band and also no ambient fusion jazz shit. So, ladies and gentlemen, please take out your chainsaws and pay tribute to Eldfödd (which means "Fireborn" in Swedish).

What the listener can find here is some really fierce and brutal old-school death metal that, as I said, goes more into the gore/ chainsaw death metal direction than anything satanic, slight black-metal-like stuff as for example Necrophobic do. No, this EP is an acoustic bloody steak. Very bloody, just half a minute in the pan.

Vocalist Erik Sahlström (Generas Surgery) sounds grim and rotten, very raspy and this gives the songs this certain dirty stinking Autopsy feeling where the pus is dripping down the walls.

Also the guitars sound very harsh and super old-school. Everything sounds like death metal from the late 80s or early 90s.  This just makes it fun. Here and there you can hear the typical Sebastian Ramstedt-guitar trademarks (like in "Risen From The Flames") but if you wouldn't know that it was originally his solo project, you wouldn't find out. The bass is powerful, too and sounds very dark and is used quite efficiently. There are albums that have a much worse sound (I guess the title I had in mind was "…And No Bass For All" or something like that).

And finally the drums…well, Perra Karlsson is just like the animal from the Muppet Show, super freaking out, hyper fast and executing his drums like a Swiss clockwork. This truly is a great performance, thunderous, pummeling, relentless. Sometimes you hear some punk influences ("Silence Of The Gods") but just for a few seconds. The rest is really fucking heavy sinister death metal that just makes fun listening to.

So we can only hope that the guys soon will release a full-length album to bring us one of the death metal highlights of that releasing year. At least my crystal ball says so.

Rating: 9 out of 10