BLOODBATH — Resurrection Through Carnage (review)

BLOODBATH — Resurrection Through Carnage album cover Album · 2002 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
bartosso
The first Bloodbath album is a piece of refurbished Swedish death metal. Saying refurbished I mean classic but modified enough to blend with modern trends and draw young metalheads attention. That's exactly what you'll hear listening to RESURRECTION THROUGH CARNAGE - modern sounding, well executed and catchy Swedish death.

Now, let's get down to details. As I said, the production is very good. Everything sounds massive - groovy and thick production enhance the Bloodbath experience. Guitars sound exceptionally evil, and I mean it. Evil as hell! Deep, sharp, granular distortion with extremely long sustain - I've never heard that kind of distortion before. Next thing is growling. Or, in the case of this particular vocalist, I should say The Growling. If you think that Mike's roars sounded hellish in Opeth's albums, here it sounds like he's being possessed by Belzebub... and feeling good about it. In a word, fantastic performance.

Concerning the most important aspect, the music, I have to say it's a satisfying album. It maintains (almost) the same artistic standards throughout the recording. The death ride starts with brooding "Ways to The Grave" and ends with equally dark "Cry My Name". These two songs and "Trail of Insects" are excellent - true highlights of the record. The rest of the tracks is good, but I didn't find anything exceptional about them. Lots of groovy riffs, solid drumming and nice, ominous atmosphere.

With such great musicians participation, it just couldn't go wrong. I think that Bloodbath wanted to create a very good album and nothing more. That's exactly what they've achieved.
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