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DYING REMAINS “Merciless Suffering”
DYING REMAINS “Merciless Suffering”
By Dr. Abner Mality
Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. So if its more boilerplate death metal you seek, here’s a rich feast of by the numbers gore. Everything about this is so utterly typical you almost have to admire it. The band name, the cover art, song titles like “Grotesque Remains”, “Sawblade Execution”, “Upon The Torture Rack”...everything converges to create an impression of a complete and total lack of identity.
Not much more to say about this one. Of course, there’s some good death metal riffs buried within and I’m sure live this stuff slams, but there is not much you will remember about “Merciless Suffering” once it’s over.. A better and sharper production would have kicked it up a notch, but we get something that’s the epitome of “good enough and that’s all”. Vocals the same sort we’ve heard before. Do we have samples of women being tortured in a dungeon? Of course!
Enough! I liked some of this while I was hearing it, but this is the kind of thing just clogging up Spotify’s death metal section. It’s really only for total death metal completists who don’t need music with its own identity.
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