DYSCARNATE — Enduring the Massacre (review)

DYSCARNATE — Enduring the Massacre album cover Album · 2010 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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"Enduring the Massacre" is the debut full-length studio album by UK death metal act Dyscarnate. The album was released through Siege of Amida Records in May 2010. Dyscarnate formed in 2003 under the Incarnate monicker but changed to the current one in 2004. They released one demo under the Incarnate monicker and a second demo under the Dyscarnate name before recording and releasing the "Annihilate To Liberate" EP in 2008.

Stylistically the material on "Enduring the Massacre" continue the brutal and technically well played death metal style of "Annihilate To Liberate" (2008). It´s artists like Dying Fetus and early Misery Index that I´m predominantly reminded of, so it´s relentlessly brutal and aggressive death metal, with intelligible growling vocals in front. The album is loaded with riffs (but no leads or solos), tempo changes, breaks, and heavy brutal grooves, and it´s the kind of release which is designed to destroy. When the 8 tracks on the 34:53 minutes long album have ended, I´m left completely exhausted, beaten and bruised. It´s highly energetic music, and there is no room left to breathe. As a consequence "Enduring the Massacre" does suffer from sounding a bit the same throughout the album, but it´s not a huge issue considering the music style, and the album features so many other redeeming qualities like the high level musicianship, the powerful, raw, and well sounding production job, and the effective songwriting, that I´m prepared to overlook the fact, that a bit more variation between tracks could have made the album a more interesting listen.

While "Annihilate To Liberate" (2008) certainly was a promising first label release from Dyscarnate, the promise that was given on the EP is more than fulfilled on "Enduring the Massacre", which is through and through a high quality death metal release. A 4 star (80%) rating is deserved.
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