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"Creation Undone" is the seventh full-length studio album by US, Wisconsin based death metal act Morta Skuld. The album was released through Peaceville Records in February 2024. It´s the successor to "Suffer for Nothing" from 2020 and features the same quartet lineup as the predecessor. Morta Skuld are one of the early American death metal acts and released their first demos in 1990. They disbanded in 1998 after releasing four full-length studio albums but reunited in 2012 and "Creation Undone" is their third full-length studio album release after their reformation.
Stylistically the material on "Creation Undone" pretty much continues the heavy and predominantly mid-paced death metal style of "Suffer for Nothing". The album features faster parts too and even a few blasting parts, but it´s generally a heavy mid-paced release. Lead vocalist/guitarist Dave Gregor sings using both a thoaty raw semi-growling vocal style but also a deeper more brutal death metal growling style. The latter less than the former.
The sound production is massive, heavy, and detailed. It´s a professional sounding production job, which suits the material well. Morta Skuld always struggled to find their own identity and neither their 90s releases nor their comeback releases have given the listener any indications that Morta Skuld would produce something which would stand out on the death metal scene. What they do on "Creation Undone" is professional, solid, and enjoyable enough while it plays, but it´s not an album which screams to me that I need to play it again. A 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating is warranted.