Repulsive Aggression - Preachers Of Death

Labelled as Norwegian death/thrash, the death element is much more prevalent, I guess as the album title suggests. The delivery is powerful, the guitar sound almost as down tuned as the pure Boss HM2 sound, the energy the filth of the vocals do make this more into the realms of old school death metal for me, a change from the (what is considered) normal for this beautiful country. The opener ‘Bleed Them Dry’ personifies my earlier remarks, although critically I find the drums lose their path when the tempo increases on this tune, but it won’t matter, you will still enjoy this.

‘Reign’ is a death metal juggernaut the opening riff is simply a classic, even adding some melody to it. Slowing intro the track itself, this reminds me very much of Morbid Angel and Obituary, a definite step forward (especially the much deeper production) from their debut album with a varied tempo and a precise metallic assault with a level of sheer class. You can hear some Norwegian style here too, there’s a few of those augmented chords in general and a sinister vocal delivery in places, a well-rounded song all in all. Having said that, the barrage of ‘Withering Flesh’ takes you thoroughly back to Scandinavia and the infant years of developing death metal. For a fist full of leather and spikes, the sucker punch ‘Beat ‘Em Down’ will suffice, oh yes indeed. Fast, furious, energetic, this blows away the cobwebs and the art of Repulsive Aggression and its much lesser peers are taken to school kicking screaming and wishing they had recorded something as good as this.

Repulsive Aggression have nailed their art, this second release is a massive leap forward in both song writing and their production values. The album is filthy, dark, heavy, all the necessary evils and the songs themselves include so many influences, well, you are like a kid in a really wicked sweet shop buried under a dust cloud of classic death metal as the album title suggests but as ‘Anthropoclast’ reveals, backed with an undercurrent of heavy thrash.

  1. Bleed Them Dry  
  2. Patricide  
  3. Utter Repulsion  
  4. Reign  
  5. Lord Of Men  
  6. Hypothermia  
  7. Withering Flesh  
  8. Beat 'Em Down  
  9. Anthropoclast  
  10. Preachers Of Death

Reviewer: twansibon
Dec 28, 2015

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