Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
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Lately, when I want to remember what death metal sounds like, I put on Dead Congregation. Not the nth generation dub with slick production and click tracks. I mean the original, the stuff aficionados capitalize. Death Metal. These Athenians have Morbid Angel's tunneling riffs, Incantation's necro atmosphere, and Immolation's groaning bends and spiky pinch harmonics. They wield these so well that I want to dive underground and roll around in the soil. Rocks, roots, tendrils. Enucleation recently reissued their Purifying Consecrated Ground EP. It's dark and hell is hot. Just as scorching is the full-length Graves of the Archangels (Nuclear War Now!, 2008). Why haven't I heard more about it? In a year full of great death metal, this might be the best. The graves have opened, and the ghosts of 1991 walk again. I have trouble describing them, for their venom enslaves me. Aaaaaagh! Urrrrrrgh! Blessed are the sick!
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Labels: clee, death metal, greece
9 Comments:
bastard! this makes me want to order it. along those lines did you check out Gravehill on the Enucleation?
NWN has to be putting out some of the best stuff in the past year.
Yeah, Morbid Angel, Incantation, Immolation. I like the band a lot!
Nice to see this mentioned here. Especially since both this album and Necrovation's Breed Deadness Blood were left off of Decibel's top of 2008.
Drums that actually sound like drums! This is great stuff--I'll have to get it.
Gravehill struck me as good, not great. To me, Dead Congregation have that special something that pushes them beyond being derivative.
I'll have to check out that Necrovation record. Any other dark horses for year-end lists?
Loved loved loved the Defying Consecrated Ground EP, this is equally fantastic.
Some dark horses, as requested:
Birushanah - Akai Yami
Admiral Angry - Buster
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
Ehnahre - The Man Closing Up
Birushanah I liked, but it didn't strike me as something I'd want to hear repeatedly. Gnaw Their Tongues struck me as trying too hard. Ehnahre was indeed quite interesting - will have to dig deeper. And Admiral Angry - no idea at all. Thanks for the tip.
Record of the year IMO...
An addendum:
I am LOVING the flu.ID retrospective Iots on Exile In Mainstream. I'd never heard of them before (like most stuff on the label) and of course they broke up a few months ago, so I'll never hear of them again. But goddamn, is there some good stuff on here. Really twisted take on the entire AmRep catalogue with some grind 'n humor thrown in.
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