Carnosus
Dogma Of The Deceased
Satanath Records / Shirley Road Records
Carnosus is a death metal band from Sweden but they do not play like classic Swedish bands - Dismember, Unleashed or Entombed, they do not sound like them either...
...So, what is there on Dogma Of The Deceased is more technical death metal with melodic leads and solos, which is all mixed and balanced with brutal break downs - more death core style, and fast, ripping death metal shreds, where bands is reaching for their sonic extremity by playing fast and intricate riffs.
Production of the album is very pumped up and boosted so music sounds modern, but like on steroids a bit. Guttural-growls with screams attached are pretty brutal too, but it`s the most chaotic element in music of the band. Music itself, even if still feels, as if cast out of chaos also, is tidier, have many fragments that "clicks", by which brutality of music is more devastating, in your face, I got impression that music of the band is going to a right direction...Still, I do not think it`s a perfect album of the band, they play like something I already heard before, but Carnosus is not a cliché of other bands too. Instrumental skills of band members are on good, decent level which let them composed very aggressive and obliterating songs, not perfect just yet....For instance guitar solos - there is a craft in it and melodies, music structures and technicality of songs transcend their death metal into something better, or they just sound death metal predictable which however convince me to their songs too.
It`s severe and quite intense death metal album, when they play more melodic and heavier, it is even better. Many musical ideas change quickly within songs, pace too, but it is faster album than it is slow, which in case of technical and brutal band like Carnosus is my personal preference.
Best tracks: ... Envenomation Of The Population, Lost To Funereal Desires, Insidious Saviour...
...So, what is there on Dogma Of The Deceased is more technical death metal with melodic leads and solos, which is all mixed and balanced with brutal break downs - more death core style, and fast, ripping death metal shreds, where bands is reaching for their sonic extremity by playing fast and intricate riffs.
Production of the album is very pumped up and boosted so music sounds modern, but like on steroids a bit. Guttural-growls with screams attached are pretty brutal too, but it`s the most chaotic element in music of the band. Music itself, even if still feels, as if cast out of chaos also, is tidier, have many fragments that "clicks", by which brutality of music is more devastating, in your face, I got impression that music of the band is going to a right direction...Still, I do not think it`s a perfect album of the band, they play like something I already heard before, but Carnosus is not a cliché of other bands too. Instrumental skills of band members are on good, decent level which let them composed very aggressive and obliterating songs, not perfect just yet....For instance guitar solos - there is a craft in it and melodies, music structures and technicality of songs transcend their death metal into something better, or they just sound death metal predictable which however convince me to their songs too.
It`s severe and quite intense death metal album, when they play more melodic and heavier, it is even better. Many musical ideas change quickly within songs, pace too, but it is faster album than it is slow, which in case of technical and brutal band like Carnosus is my personal preference.
Best tracks: ... Envenomation Of The Population, Lost To Funereal Desires, Insidious Saviour...
Tracklist:
1 Envenomation Of The Population
2 Chamber Of Emancipation
3 Lost To Funereal Desires
4 Subjected To Cadaverous Defilement
5 An Illicit Practice
6 Insidious Saviour
7 Deceptive Authority
8 Totalityranny
9 Enthroned
10 Empire Of Gloom
11 Continuum Of Misery
1 Envenomation Of The Population
2 Chamber Of Emancipation
3 Lost To Funereal Desires
4 Subjected To Cadaverous Defilement
5 An Illicit Practice
6 Insidious Saviour
7 Deceptive Authority
8 Totalityranny
9 Enthroned
10 Empire Of Gloom
11 Continuum Of Misery
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 16.10.2020
Added: 16.10.2020