Iron Flesh
Summoning The Putrid
Great Dane Records
Old school death metal is a noble genre, but it does not always have to sound like death metal where nothing else can be done for it musically. You can re-animate this old corpse and give it a second life, just like French Iron Flesh has done on their sophomore album Summoning The Putrid.
It is a very heavy record, rhythm guitar and bass have some of that decayed Swedish death metal sound and some atmospherics (Death And The Reaper'S Scythe), and yet, the band plays some melodic leads (Purify Through Blasphemy) that they surround their brutal but imaginative death metal with. Songs have solid dynamics, one of their tracks, which is Incursion Of Evil, remind me a Carcass song Heartwork. The slowest track of the album is Demonic Enn that hits with heavy and catchy riffs, by which this album has something that let me memorize the music. Similar song by its pace is Cursed Beyond Death, it`s just more melodic track. There are few faster songs here with blast beats, but actually there are not as many of such tracks as you might think of. Averagely, this album just gives you more heavier songs than faster ones. One of better faster track for me is surely Relinquished Flesh, where the band announces guitar riffs for the song and shortly after, they play those relentless and blasting drums along with brutal death metal riffs. There are some melodic and thrashier guitar solos - Servants Of Oblivion, and I think that those heavier, mid-tempo tracks with catchy leads is just what is best for this album, like in song Thy Power Infinite.
If you desire some stinking like a dead body old school death metal riffs, they just have bits and pieces of it throughout the album, mostly in doomy death metal song like Convicted Faith. On the contrary, this album has some solid death metal chords and melodies, which just open up a better possibilities for Iron Flesh creatively. I mean, it would not be as good record as if it was just a standing alone, old school death metal album.
For fans of Grave, Carcass. Loudblast...
It is a very heavy record, rhythm guitar and bass have some of that decayed Swedish death metal sound and some atmospherics (Death And The Reaper'S Scythe), and yet, the band plays some melodic leads (Purify Through Blasphemy) that they surround their brutal but imaginative death metal with. Songs have solid dynamics, one of their tracks, which is Incursion Of Evil, remind me a Carcass song Heartwork. The slowest track of the album is Demonic Enn that hits with heavy and catchy riffs, by which this album has something that let me memorize the music. Similar song by its pace is Cursed Beyond Death, it`s just more melodic track. There are few faster songs here with blast beats, but actually there are not as many of such tracks as you might think of. Averagely, this album just gives you more heavier songs than faster ones. One of better faster track for me is surely Relinquished Flesh, where the band announces guitar riffs for the song and shortly after, they play those relentless and blasting drums along with brutal death metal riffs. There are some melodic and thrashier guitar solos - Servants Of Oblivion, and I think that those heavier, mid-tempo tracks with catchy leads is just what is best for this album, like in song Thy Power Infinite.
If you desire some stinking like a dead body old school death metal riffs, they just have bits and pieces of it throughout the album, mostly in doomy death metal song like Convicted Faith. On the contrary, this album has some solid death metal chords and melodies, which just open up a better possibilities for Iron Flesh creatively. I mean, it would not be as good record as if it was just a standing alone, old school death metal album.
For fans of Grave, Carcass. Loudblast...
Tracklist:
1 Servants Of Oblivion
2 Relinquished Flesh
3 Demonic Enn
4 Purify Through Blasphemy
5 Cursed Beyond Death
6 Death And The Reaper'S Scythe
7 Incursion Of Evil
8 Thy Power Infinite
9 Convicted Faith
1 Servants Of Oblivion
2 Relinquished Flesh
3 Demonic Enn
4 Purify Through Blasphemy
5 Cursed Beyond Death
6 Death And The Reaper'S Scythe
7 Incursion Of Evil
8 Thy Power Infinite
9 Convicted Faith
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 14.12.2020
Added: 14.12.2020
