MASSACRE — Necrolution (review)

MASSACRE — Necrolution album cover Album · 2024 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Necrolution" is the fifth full-length studio album by US death metal act Massacre. The album was released through Agonia Records in November 2024. It´s the successor to "Resurgence" from October 2021. There have been a couple of lineup changes since the predecessor as guitarist Scott Fairfax has left (he hasn´t been replaced) and drummer Brynjar Helgetun has also left and has been replaced by Jon Rudin. Prolific Swedish death metal guitarist Rogga Johansson is still part of the lineup, but it´s only lead vocalist Kam Lee who remains from the original 90s lineup. That´s of course been the case since guitarist Rick Rozz left in 2019, so the lineup is no surprise.

Stylistically there are no surprises either as this is simple and effective old school death metal with Kam Lee´s brutal yet reasonably intelligible growling vocals in front. Johansson and Lee already have a couple of collaborative projects under their belts in The Grotesquery and Bone Gnawer, so they are used to working together but this time around it´s of course primarely Lee´s baby with Johansson contributing. While Massacre produce some decent quality old school death metal on "Necrolution", I´ll take most releases from The Grotesquery and Bone Gnawer over this one though.

"Necrolution" features a decent sounding production job, solid musical performances, and some decent but not particularly memorable songwriting, and one could have hoped for a little more from such a legendary artist. As it is "Necrolution" is a pretty standard fare old school death metal release and a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.
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