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| 4.0 excellent | Assemblage | January 20th 24 |
This was wavering between a 3.5 and a 4 for me, as the opener was strong but the next few songs, while not distinctively having anything wrong with them, seem a little more generically clumped together often feeling a little longer than they should. It wasn't until Holy Parasites where I began liking every song a lot better and the songwriting started to fit more cohesively together, partly because the tracks are shorter. But was it enough? It wasn't until the near closer that the band offered what we deathmetal heads have come to crave, an actual complete excavated experience. And possibly one of the few instances in death metal, where the final track does represent something akin from rising out of the grave- the soul seemingly being born, or reborn, one last time. Instrumentally, this already has an 'Opprobrium - Beyond the Unknown' styled representation with a little less on the thrash but still with the lumbering, almost sluggish groove oftentimes with the riffs to which that album has come to been known for. Maybe a little Sinister. It's perhaps not the most inventive on the formula, but the 4 is still easy here for me for the overall composition, and the track 'Field of Screams' definitely should be heard (whether in the context of the latter half of the album or as an individual track); especially when the early 2000 era is considered a low peak for dm. If you can still appreciate the tracks up until the middle of the album, then your time will not have been wasted if you stick through it until the end.
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