Bestial Deform – Ad Leones

Having been kicking out death metal since 1990, Russia’s Bestial Deform (front man Kirill Ulanenkov being the sole original member) return with their fifth full length album.

"Ad Leones" is 40 minutes of no nonsense old school death metal. That’s really both the albums strength and weakness. It’s competent enough but it doesn’t really stand out or set itself apart from the crowd, with that being said I am well aware the band have been blasting out blasphemous bile longer than I’ve had body hair and they are sticking to what they are good at and don’t really owe any one anything and there’s nothing actually wrong with the disc.

What it does do on the plus side is bring to mind the late 80’s early 90’s when death metal was still forming and bands couldn’t rely on studio trickery to build them up, this sounds raw, dirty and above all live. The songs are well formed and well paced if a little samey. They know how long to blast for before changing time signatures and mixing things up.

All in all if you like Bolt Thrower, the early days of Napalm Death- Barney era or Cancer there’s a lot here to enjoy.


  1. Intro - Ad Patres
  2. In Maxillis Bestia
  3. Chariots
  4. Symbol Of Salvation
  5. Spirit. Rage. Flash
  6. Together We'll Destroy The World
  7. Severed To Pieces
  8. Hoc Est
  9. I Am Alone. I Exist. I Am God
  10. Christianos Ad Leones!

Reviewer: twansibon
Mar 26, 2016

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