Death Metal Kill Zone

I can highly recommend the live Suffocation live album which features Frank Mullen´s last performance with the band. I have a review in backlog which will be posted in the next couple of weeks:

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/suffocation/live-in-north-america(live)

I´m usually not that interested in death metal live recordings, but this one is well worth your time.

I love how Frank is in command of the performance and the audience. What a legend. He will be sorely missed. Fortunately I had the honor of seing him play with Suffocation in 2008, and it was an eye opening experience for me. Growing up and being a big death metal fan in the early 90s I knew about Suffocation, but it was not an act I listened to much, but after seing Suffocation with Frank in 2008 my view and interest in Suffocation grew, and I´ve listened to and have reviewed all their releases since, and I consider myself a big fan today....better late than never .

I´ve seen them twice since without Frank, and they are still an incredibly well playing band delivering a powerful performance, so they are still a highly recommendable live act. In fact I have tickets to see them in March, if they don´t cancel because of the Corona situation.

I´ve just discovered Wombbath. I don´t know why I never heard of them in the 90s, but I can strongly recommend listening to their 1993 album:

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/wombbath/internal-caustic-torments

I had a listen to Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd again the other day:

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/fleshcrawl/descend-into-the-absurd

...and it is still an album which is high on my list of old school death metal releases. The combination of ultra slow death/doom parts and faster old school death metal may sound a little awkward to some, but it´s the anarchistic nature of the product which somehow speaks to me.

Fleshcrawl are interesting, as this is their only album I enjoy. The remaining part of their discography somehow sunk into cloning Dismember again and again. I´m not sure why they didn´t continue this awesome sound.

There's been quite a few really solid death metal albums this year so far.  I will post them one at a time and leave a week or two between each as to not saturate the thread.  First up:

Old school death at the core with a few touches of modern flair but nothing that should put off those who don't enjoy the dissonance.  The fretless bass is exceptionally good.  I bought it on Bandcamp but since then it has now also become available on Spotify.