Erupted - In The Grip Of Chaos

Label promotional references such influences as Grave, Entombed, Death and At The Gates, this debut album from these Swedish youngsters sounds promising on paper, but in practice, you will be in for a torrid endurance sapping time. Both good and bad feature, unfortunately I’m reminded more of the latter, the lesser quality of the two. Don’t get me wrong, ‘In the Grip of Chaos’ (the title track) batters senses, there are moments that remind you of some great death metal music, but over the full track there is a severe loss of momentum, there is nothing really to speak of that will leave a marked impression in your mind, certainly not in mine anyway.

The production is regrettably rather thin on other tracks like ‘The Dark Mistress’ of which the vocals are rather regurgitate/gargled and to me too loud in the mix. Redemption is in the low end drum sound and crunch from the guitars that manages to wake you up from a sleeping slumber that pre cursors this incident. There is some promise in ‘Blazing Fall of Heaven’, that is, when old school, up tempo death metal is present, this is where it works as it includes some death groove. I only wish the remainder of the album was as up tempo and continued in such a juggernaut fashion as this track because songs of this nature really hit the spot.

There is essentially a major element of retention or rather consistency missing from the album; my issue is the fact that song arrangements lose ideas, they try different musical signatures and feelings to gain some sort of individuality, but all this does is make the tracks sound like a disjointed amalgamation of a random influences or ideas from the past and the production being weak in nature does not help matters one little bit. This is a relatively new band fresh from Sweden, but overall, this is not a very impressive effort, the glut of “old school copycats” finally reaches its peak with Erupted, it is unfortunately one of those albums that will make you go “meh”.

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1. Salvation From Below
2. In The Grip Of Chaos
3. The Dark Mistress
4. Path Of Perdition
5. Death Of A Depraved Mind
6. Blazing Fall Of Heaven
7. That Which Is Denied Gains Power
8. Born Of Hate
9. Hell Recreated (demo)
10. Faces Of Death (demo)