Once you start to think that the flood of great
old styled death metal bands, which nowadays is so dominating the underground
scene, is over and meanwhile yet another killer release with two new bands from
this style has been released. Fuck, where do they all come from? But it really
is not a problem for me to listen to some more bands from this style, especially
as so many of them play killer music and make me feel thrilled. I never have
enough, unless they start to repeat the same riffs all over again and you can
feel the stagnancy and lack of passion and lethal energy. Here is another
release, which just blew my head off towards fuckin Mars and hurt my neck
totally, once I stopped banging my head. FDA Rekotz released this wonderful
split 7”EP, which features two completely unknown German bands: Lifeless and
Chapel of Disease. And since only recently I complained a little on the condition
of the German scene, now I can say that it gets better and better with bands
like Revel In Flesh, Deserted Fear, Obscure Infinity and these two, ha!
OK, the whole massacre starts with Lifeless’ absolutely
amazing song “Godconstruct”. I was very surprised to see that Lifeless already
had one full length LP in their discography, 2008’s “Beyond the Threshold of
Death”, and that I never heard it. I must look for it definitely, as “Godconstruct”
is just fantastic piece of Swedish influenced death metal. Yeah, once you see
Lifeless’ logo and you know what they will play hehe! Personally I don’t care
if it looks like Entombed’s or Carnage’s logo, Entrails also has used the same
font… It looks old school, sick and man, I love it. But the music is just tremendously
good. I mean if you call yourself a maniac of the Swedish bands – more so, if you
worship “Like an Ever Flowing Stream”, “Indecent & Obscene” and “Left Hand
Path”, then “Godconstruct” will hit your G-point and make scream in ecstasy as
much as it did to me! I love every aspect of this song, starting with horror
church bells at the beginning, plus the absolutely wonderful melodic riff which
opens “Godconstruct” and the one, which is in the end… plus of course also the
production, which is another very strong point of Lifeless in my opinion. Fuck yeah,
those guys have collected all the best parts of Dismember, especially from “Indecent
& Obscene” and “Pieces” era and brought it back to life in their own way…
But you know, it’s not enough just to pick up a style of certain band and
imitate it, you also must have skills, talent and idea to do it well enough to
be appreciated and in my opinion Lifeless does exactly that! As I already said,
I love it! Great song, especially those melodic bits in it; the one from the
end sounds pretty much like that mournful harmonic riff from “Dreaming In Red”,
but yeah… it did crush me.
And now Chapel of Disease. Two things first –
just like when I was seeing Revel In Flesh for the first time, also here I must
mention that I really love the band’s moniker and their totally old school,
killer logo, which is one of the best ones I’ve seen lately. Musically Chapel
of Disease is more straight forward death metal band, but still with very strong
old school feeling. Their music is more archaic in my opinion, more like early
Nihilist, even early Pestilence and Asphyx, plus also some recent acts like
Morbus Chron, Repugnant, Maim and Death Breath. But again such sounds like
those from “The Nameless City” work perfectly for me, their raw, aggressive
style is just blowing the speakers off and damn, it is just awesome. Not as
killer as Lifeless, but still very, very good.
Ha, this split EP was released on the day of my
32nd birthday. Even though I only just purchased my copy last week, so few
months after the 22nd of June, it feels like a great birthday present and definitely
a music, which makes me feel crazy and erupting with energy. Hail! I definitely
wait now for the full length albums from both bands, Lifeless especially, but
for this one I have to wait until 2013. But Chapel of Disease will unleash
their debut “Summoning Black Gods” in December 2012 and I know that I must get
a vinyl copy of it as soon as I will be able to. Meanwhile I strongly advise
you to get “Chapel of a Lifeless Cult”, it is just killer release. And it is
also perfectly released – in a gatefold cover, with a couple of stickers and
small poster… What else can I ask for?
Final rate: 90/100
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