Bombs of Hades - Chambers of Abominations

Bombs of Hades
Chambers of Abominations
2010 Blood Harvest Records
I'm not sure if this is going to be pressed on CD, but what I am sure of is that Bombs of Hades do not sound like a product of metal's modern era. But let's not make the mistake of calling them a "retro" band either. If you've got members that were around in the early days of death metal and were making music back then, you're the real deal. And with Jonas Stålhammar and Butch Ekman, it doesn't get much more real than that. Both of these guys were in Abhoth, and Jonas was part of Utumno and God Macabre... and now is handling vocals in The Crown. So yeah, the guy is a bit of a legend in the scene to us old farts. All of that said, Bombs of Hades do not sound like a band that would have been around twenty years ago. They sound more like what a band of that era would sound like today. The core Stockholm style sound is there, but it has been combined with a lot of other influences that your "retro" type bands have most likely not even heard. Most metal fans, myself included, more or less stick to metal and rock, but I know for a fact that Jonas listens to a lot of different kinds of music. While I can't for certain pick any non-metal influences out of these songs, I do strongly believe that they are present. This is the kind of fusion that gives us better sounding metal. The people that listen to metal and only metal are the ones who end up forming fifteenth generation clone bands. Instead of rehashing the past, Bombs of Hades have instead brought that past forward to the present day. If the 1990 Stockholm scene was founded today, this is the kind of death metal we'd be hearing from that part of the world.