One of my favorite discoveries from 2007 and perhaps the best discovery from that year. Dead Congregation's first ep after changing names is one of the best EPs that I have heard of this new old school of death metal. Dead Congregation shares this position with bands like Repugnant, Excoriate, Deteriorot, and Maim. For the ones familiar with their full length released last year it's gonna be bit different, for the ones familiar with their old stuff is also gonna be different. This is death metal played in a very black metallish way, it's very close yet it stands without trouble as a death metal act. The riffing is impressive, sinister, and it kinds of surround the listener and takes it in a trip to the underworld. The riffs are done in a tasteful way combining NYDM, black metal, and Old Finnish DM. The riffs go from extremely thrashy to extremely slow and kind of doomish, not that slow but slow enough. I could talk about the guitar section throughout the whole day and don't get tired of it, they really took their time to record this. The vocalist is extremely good at what he does, he sounds like a fiend calling us the listeners to join him on a great adventure, again top of the top. The drummer is also extremely proficient at he does, funny that he also plays in shitty band as inveracity, he blasts here and there, but all fits and he is really do at filling, always busy and keeping a nice beat in the music. The bass is pretty much unheard throughout the whole album, which is one of the few weak spots of the album. Production wise it's really neat, flat for the most part, not bassy at all. Hail Hades!
Dead Congregation - Purifying Consecrated Ground
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