ELECTROCUTION — Inside the Unreal (review)

ELECTROCUTION — Inside the Unreal album cover Album · 1993 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Inside the Unreal was the debut and only full-length album to be released by Italian death metal act Electrocution, although they did also put out some prior demos and followed the album up with a couple of EP’s. Inside the Unreal was originally released in 1993 through Contempo Records and had been solid out for some time. A 20th Anniversary edition of the album was released in 2012 through GoreGoreCords, which has been remastered and packaged up as a limited edition digipack. It’s this version that I have here for review.

The music of the release is best described as old school death metal. Given the time frame of Inside the Unreal’s original release that shouldn’t be too surprising. The music features leanings into thrash and technical death metal also. It’s an intense sound that Electrocution delivers, the sort that refuses to relent in its aggression through the album’s ten tracks, resulting in just about thirty-seven minutes of furious music. The riffs hit you hard and the solos are blistering, and it is all topped off by the deep growling of Mick Montaguti. Electrocution were very clearly a tight unit.

It’s a good album, but it’s also one of those where try as I might, I can’t find a lot to say about it. Electrocution was clearly an act with a single intent in mind and they stuck to it faithfully on their album, and I dare say that’s just what fans of this kind of music want. There are no unnecessary forays into other styles of music for intros and interludes as many modern albums tend to do. It starts and the band does the business until the end. It does mean on the other hand that you won’t be thrown any real surprises, however the material is consistently strong and while it isn’t really in the same class as what the big guns of death metal were doing at the time, such as Death who released the excellent Individual Thought Patterns in the same year, I do find myself enjoying Inside the Unreal a fair bit whenever I put it on. A great album rating is easily deserved for this very solid and perhaps overlooked release.

8.0/10

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven (http://metaltube.freeforums.org))
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