MORDBRAND / RITE - Split 7"EP (DOOMENTIA Records - EP 2015)
Looks like some of these newly
founded old school death metal bands don’t know the meaning of the word “rest”
and work hard on another and another release, even if some of them are just
singles. Mordbrand is one such band, with three EPs, two split 7”EPs and one
full length album all released within three years. Good, I’m not gonna complain,
as I like this band’s music a lot. On this recent split with Rite, putted out
by Doomentia Records, they have song called “Order of the Formless”, which is
just as good as their previous stuff. Good, classic style of Swedish death
metal, which should tick all the right boxes if you wanted to make a precise
description of this style of death metal. Of course it’s not the best song you’ll
ever hear in this style, it’s probably not even in the top hundred, but damn
it, it’s good enough to crush your head and tear some guts out. I like these
riffs a lot, especially the one that opens the song is so fuckin heavy and damn
awesome that the ears are bleeding! And Per Boder still sounds like a beast and
surely this song is not tiring and repetitive as some moaners would wish it to
be. Expect to hear just solid, great sounding death metal, that’s it!
I was not familiar with Rite
at all, it turns out it’s black metal project, not death metal! But I know that
Per Boder likes a lot of black metal (including many Polish bands haha), so I
am not surprised if Mordbrand releases a split with black metal project. Rite
is also Swedish and they’re OK, really. They play quite harsh and heavily distorted
music, with really cold and hateful aura, there are some faster moments, as
well as some slower ones and generally it’s just typical noisy Scandinavian
black metal. Again I can say it’s nothing innovative, nothing spectacular, but
damn solid and worthy piece of music. I played this song few times and surely
need to find some more releases from Rite now.
Nice split 7”EP then!
Final rate: 75/100
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