Abyssus Records 2013
1.Eat Shit And Die 2.Dark Matter 3.The Lords Prey(er)
4.Butcher Bludgeons Bloodbath
The first aspect that grabs your attention as opening track
“Eat Shit And Die” opens up is the heavy as fuck production, steamrolling out
of the speakers with a massive death metal punch (courtesy of a James Murphy mastering). Describing themselves as
Progressive Death Metal, there is a slight progressive influence to be heard,
but overall this first track is a quite straight forward heavy death metal
affair, the pace being held back at slow to mid-paced. Vocally it’s as you
would expect, crushing and guttural death metal growls, not too dissimilar to
an early Ill-Disposed type delivery. ‘Dark Matter’ follows on in comparable fashion with similar
paces being adopted once more. What differs with this second track is that the
band does take on an altogether different approach, the ‘progressive’ element
more evident throughout, the guitars leading the technical and at times melodic
assault. The song breaks several times into acoustic guitar lead passages which
only enhance the progressive theme.
‘The Lords Prey(er) see’s the band
experimenting with pace, injecting some faster sections into the mix which are
short, sharp forays into something new and sit well in amongst the slower more
technical passages. As the song builds it begins to take on a really epic sound
and ends on an extremely atmospheric high. Closing this e.p. is ‘Butcher
Bludgeons Bloodbath’ and again, it follows on in similar fashion to the
previous track, flirting with faster paces, but only very briefly, which is a
shame as the songs would definitely benefit from adding varying paces as opposed
to being rooted firmly in the slow to mid-paced which is probably why all four
songs ultimately lack that killer punch (and reading the list of influences the
band cite, it is filled with groups that use speed to add to the extremity,
whereas NI don’t, which baffles slightly). However, Nihilism Incarnate’s ability and musicianship is unquestionable;
the technical guitar work is flawless and extremely well composed and delivered
and is accompanied by some solid drum work. Technical death metal with a
progressive edge, this debut four track e.p. showcases a band that are more
than capable of handling their instruments and writing well-constructed and
well executed death metal songs. The lack of (mixing) pace is a slight niggling
point, but this shouldn’t detract from effort the band has put into this
release and it is well worth checking out!
7 out of 10
Band Page: Here
Buy It: Here
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