EXTERMÍNIO — Alcatéia Macabra (review)

EXTERMÍNIO — Alcatéia Macabra album cover Album · 2020 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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EXTERMÍNIO is one of the many extreme metal bands emerging from the huge sprawling nation of Brazil lately that has adopted the old school ethos of Morbid Angel style purity in death metal along with the blackened characteristics heard in war metal and other bands with a darkened hue like Behemoth, Necrophobic and Tschornobog just to name a very few. This band comes from the far southern reaches of Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the city of Dourados.

Not to be confused with the thrash metal band of the same name from Rio de Janeiro or the brutal noise act from the Sāo Paulo area, this EXTERMÍNIO has existed since 2004 with the two consistent members of R. Destructor Necrófago (vocals, guitar) and Assombração dos Seis Cranios (bass). The band has seen two drummers in its history with the latest being Otavio Bacteria. So far this band has only released the sole album ALCATÉIA MACABRA which came out in 2020 on the Cianeto Records label, a Rio de Janeiro based label that has been cranking out the death metal acts since 2005.

Matching the eerie album cover art, EXTERMÍNIO delivers a sound style to match with a heavy distorted groove-based style of blackened death metal that offers a hint of death’n’roll with its rolling wave technique that sounds a bit like Morbid Angel but also offers slower tracks that proceeds with noisy cyclical loops of riffing. The guitar squeals that emerge as solos harken back to the old school European death metal days but the lyrics growled in Portuguese and the varying drumming patterns give EXTERMÍNIO somewhat of a unique sound that’s very nice actually. The band while minimalistic really redelivers a filthy grungy macabre type of sound. With a few moments of slower doom metal plodding and busy technical moments, this band displays a competency that Brazil has made a national standard.

This album features seven tracks at just under 42 minutes of playing time and while not ridiculously original or crafting a style that will pierce the glutted world of death metal as this band doesn’t stand out enough to be notice, EXTERMÍNIO definitely delivers the goods in a satisfying way that brings the blackened possibilities out of traditional sounding death metal. The musicians are competent enough and the darkened tones and distortion techniques fit the subject matter and album cover art perfectly. Overall this is a high quality death metal release from the outskirts of Brazil even if not something that will set the world on fire.
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