Facebreaker - Dead, Rotten And Hungry

\r\nThis is the second full-length album by Swedish death metallers Facebreaker and with a few words this is nothing more than old school Swedish fucking death metal but with a more modern production. The songs are mostly from speedy thrash driven to mid-tempo and of course killer sluggish groovy parts in the Grave-like tradition. The guitars are downtuned yet razor sharp dominating the entire 11-track output. Short in their duration they manage to keep a certain variation with lots of well measured tempo changes. Corruptive, dirty riffs set to contaminate the ears of the listener and pummeling drums that bring a nice mix of double-bass fueled brutality and short, rythmic slow parts under the pure Swedish death chugging. The whole album stenches a galloping and intense feast of old-school style death metal perfect for nothing more than a merciless, unceasing headbangable orgy. The sound is foul and heavily thick and on top of that the extremely snarling death vocals by Roberth Karlsson (ex-Edge Of Sanity and member of Pan.Thy.Monium). This guy surely knows how to abuse his throat delivering some of the most bloody and ultra menacing growling stuff today. \r\n

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\r\nAlthough some tracks stand way above the others ("Dead, Rotten And Hungry"- totally snap-necking and with a tremendous rhythm, "Unanimated Flesh" and "Soul Eater") and that’s why my final rating isn’t higher but surely the whole effort is being reckoned as a totally solid and damn good release of a decent, well accomplished and unrelenting death metal assault. Fans of Dismember and Grave’s corruptive, auditory dissonance be sure to check out those Swedish death metal bludgeoners. \r\n

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