DEMONICAL — Death Infernal (review)

DEMONICAL — Death Infernal album cover Album · 2011 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"Death Infernal" is the third full-length studio album by Swedish death metal act Demonical. The album was released through Cyclone Empire in April 2011. It´s the successor to "Hellsworn" from May 2009. No lineup changes has taken place since the predecessor and therefore "Death Infernal" was recorded by the same quartet lineup who recorded "Hellsworn".

Three of the members of Demonical came from the just disbanded Centinex (in 2006) and personally I expected that Demonical would be a continuation of the Dismember meets blackened melodic death metal style of Centinex, but the first two Demonical albums proved me wrong. Demonical instead played a dark, grim, and brutal old school Swedish death metal style which was closer to the sound of early Grave and didn´t feature any melodic traits. So it was quickly established that Demonical was a completely different beast to Centinex.

That has however changed on "Death Infernal" where Demonical have opted to bring the Dismember influence back and as a consequence also bring back some melodic themes. This is not melodeath by any means though. It´s just a more melodic take on the old school Swedish death metal sound than what Demonical presented on their first couple of albums. In many ways the material on "Death Infernal" sounds like the bastard child of Centinex and Demonical, released under the monicker of the latter.

"Death Infernal" features a powerful, brutal, and detailed sound production...HM-2 guitar tone and everyhing else are in place as expected. So "Death Infernal" is another good quality death metal release from Demonical. Personally however I think they´ve lost something by bringing back the Centinex elements, as I feel the strength of the first two Demonical albums came from being completely different to what Centinex had done before. Still a 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating is warranted.
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