Review: Harrowed – The Eternal Hunger
Harrowed show their love for HM-2 death metal, while infusing it with a punk attitude and enough filth and grime for maximum credibility. The result is a banger of an album.
Harrowed show their love for HM-2 death metal, while infusing it with a punk attitude and enough filth and grime for maximum credibility. The result is a banger of an album.
“The Rot Beneath” doesn’t bother with subtlety or finesse, but is content with delivering’ four tracks of unapologetic, bone-crushing HM-2 death metal.
“Necro” is exactly the kind of album that makes traditionalists grin with bruised teeth and banged heads. HM-2 galore!
“Swallowing The World” is classic Swedish melodic death metal, where riffs are razor-sharp, hooks are aggressive, and the spirit of the old Stockholm school looms large. And for the most part, it delivers. The band out of Gothenborg don’t waste time with pretense: from the …
“Plague Of Cancers” pummels with buzz-saw guitar tone and groove-laden riffs, its HM-2 chainsaw buzz the core of its attack. It may tread familiar terrain, but when it hits right it still smacks like death metal born to be unleashed.
“Defiance” is a hammer blow wrapped in poetry, part chainsaw-death, part atmospheric lament, testifying that Nightbearer are more than just worshippers of old Swedish death—they are its sharper, angrier evolution. The album stumbles just a few times in pacing and mix, but even those stumbles are over terrains of riffs and ideas worth stumbling over.
Swedish death metal? Absolutely. Give me buzzsaw guitars, give me as much HM-2 as possible!
No Shelter have released the video for “Schizophrenia” from their upcoming third full-length “Remission/ Resolve”, out July 25th.
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Hailing from the dalecarlia region of Sweden, HM2-aficionado DISRUPTED (with former Katatonia drummer Daniel Liljekvist in the line-up)have announced the release of the band’s third full-length album, entitled “Stinking Death”, set to drop on January 24 via Trust No One Recordings. Speaking about the track, the band shares: “‘Coffin Breath’ is a straight-forward death metal song …