CENTINEX — Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos (review)

CENTINEX — Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos album cover Album · 2004 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos" is the seventh full-length studio album by Swedish death metal act Centinex. The album was released through Candlelight Records USA in February 2004. It´s the successor to "Diabolical Desolation" from March 2002. There´s been one lineup change since the predecessor as lead guitarist Kenneth Wiklund, who joined Centinex in 1993 and had performed on all releases before this one, has left and has been replaced by Johan Ahlberg.

Centinex continue to play a melodic and blackened death metal style, but "Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos" was their most professionally produced release up until then and the production values provide the album with something extra. Centinex are as well playing as ever and if Wiklund´s exit has meant anything for the band´s sound it´s maybe that the music is slightly more brutal and aggressive and less melodic, but then again this is still a pretty melodic death metal album. The vocals are a combination of blackened snarling and deeper growling. Often layered.

The quality of the songwriting hasn´t changed much since the last album, and this is as solid as most Centinex releases before it. Solid...but seldom anything out of the ordinary for the style. So it´s an album which is enjoyable while it plays, but forgotten just as soon after it has ended. Still a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.
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