CENTINEX — Redeeming Filth

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3.77 | 3 ratings | 2 reviews

Album · 2014

Filed under Death Metal
By CENTINEX

Tracklist

1. When Bodies Are Deformed
2. Moist Purple Skin
3. Death Glance
4. Stone Of Choice
5. Unrestrained;
6. Bloodraze
7. Without Motives
8. Rotting Below
9. Dead, Buried and Forgotten
10. Eye Sockets Empty

Line-up/Musicians

- Martin Schulman / Bass
- Kennet Englund / Drums
- Sverker Widgren / Guitars
- Alexander Högbom / Vocals

About this release

Label: Agonia Records
Release date November 21, 2014 (Europe) and December 9, 2014 (North America).

A music video was made for 'Moist Purple Skin'.

Recording information:

Recorded at Amplified Studios, Sacramento, California, USA.
Mixed & mastered at Garageland Studios, Umeå, Sweden during the spring of 2014.

Thanks to Time Signature for the addition and umur for the updates

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UMUR

"Redeeming Filth" is the ninth full-length studio album by swedish death metal act Centinex. The album was released through Agonia Records in November 2014. It´s the successor to "World Declension" from June 2005, so it´s a comeback album after a nine year recording hiatus. Quite a few things have happened in those nine years though. Centinex officially split up in April 2006 and shortly after disbanding, three of the members of the lineup who recorded "World Declension" formed Demonical along with new vocalist Ludvig Engellau. In the intermediate years Demonical have released four studio albums making a name for themselves, but the wish to ressurect Centinex had been strong and therefore a lineup consisting of Martin Schulman (bass), Kennet Englund (drums), Sverker Widgren (guitars), and Alexander Högbom (vocals) were assembled for the recording of "Redeeming Filth".

So with the history of Centinex and Demonical now completely intwined, with members and former members of both bands appearing on recordings of both artists I´m wondering if there is really a need for both acts to exist...are the output of the two band´s really different enough to warrant the existence of two artists?

Considering that the last two albums by Demonical ("Death Infernal" from 2011 and "Darkness Unbound" from 2013) sounded more and more like a combination of the melodic old school Swedish death metal style of Dismember and the dark, grim, and brutal old school Swedish death metal style of Grave, I´m not surprised that the choice to ressurect Centinex was made. I´m a bit more surprised to learn that "Redeeming Filth" is not nearly as melodic as I had expected and actually predominantly features a more brutal old school Swedish death metal sound (although they haven´t gone for the HM-2 guitar tone on this album). I simply can´t tell where Centinex ends and where Demonical begins anymore (other than the lack of the HM-2 guitar tone).

"Redeeming Filth" features a slightly less interesting sound production than the preceding Demonical releases, and compared to the Demonical output I´m actually a little less impressed by this comeback Centinex release. It´s a good solid Swedish death metal release, but it´s not anything out of the ordinary and a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.

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Time Signature

When bands are reformed...

Genre: death metal

Death metal veteran outfit Centinex was formed back in 1990 and thus part of the more brutal first wave of Swedish death metal which would eventually be supplanted by the more melodic type of death metal with which Sweden is associated today. After 16 years, the band folded in 2006, but reformed earlier this year.

And, lo and behold, they already released their comeback in the form of "Redeeming Filth" in November this year. From beginning to end, the album is no-nonsense brutal old school Swedish death metal, driven by brutal riffs, guttural vocals, and double bass drums. Fast and aggressive stuff is combined with passages, and, true to the Stockholmer death metal style of the 1990s, there are also some crust-inspired tracks, such as the d-beating 'Death Glance'.

The production is bottom-heavy, but much more well-defined than much 1990s death metal. Obviously, this sort of production supports the aggressive and brutal music very well. The songwriting and musicianship documented on this album are both solid. This is riff-driven old school death metal, so don't expect fancy technical modern stuff. This is death metal brutality in the original sense of the term.

Fans of old school death metal must not miss out on this one!