Thursday, July 22, 2010

Beyond Hell - The Sleeper Awakens



Beyond Hell
The Sleeper Awakens
2010 Dark Descent / Skeleton Plague
The Elektrocutioner strikes again! I've given up count as to who has more projects going: him or Rogga Johansson. Not that it matters, of course. What does matter is that Beyond Hell kicks some major poser ass down the block and back again. Call it an old school death metal revival if you will, but I'm loving it. Beyond Hell really hits the proverbial nail on the head here. With a sound that lies some place between Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" and "Leprosy" albums with a bit of early Morgoth and van Drunen era Pestilence tossed in for good measure, Beyond Hell have come up with a potent recipe indeed. Think "Malleus Maleficarum" written by Chuck Schuldiner instead of that tosser, Mameli. Maybe the guitar solos get to be a little much at times, but they all seem to work very well. Which is good, because there's a shitload of them. As a special bonus, Beyond Hell opted to include their debut mini-album "... and Evil Crept Through" here for those who didn't manage to get ahold of one of the 50 copies.

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