SIDERAL TORMENT

Carcariass continues on from where they left it on Hell On Earth, their debut album.

I get tonnes of Cannibal Corpse associations when Distributed Thinking slams through the speakers and devours the airwaves. And that is exactly where Carcariass sets out their stall for a large part of this album. But they also leans pretty strongly towards some more melodic stuff too. Cannibal Corpse's excellent Gallery Of Suicide album springs to mind. But Carcariass is even more melodic than that. Not that they stepping on Genesis or Camel's toes in the melody stakes, but I get the feeling that this album is Cannibal Light.

You also get the normal death growls, both the distorted guitars and the thrash guitars, a medium speed, blast beats and the thundering bass. Death metal in other words.

The quality is OK, without really making my excited. It is run of the mill death metal which neither offend me or brightens my day. Pretty good it is, but also pretty dull. Dull metal.

2.25 stars

Carcariass is a technical/ progressive death metal band from France with almost 20 years career in this bussines, they release so far 4 studio albums, this is their second one from 1998 named Sideral torment. The album was issued at Impacts Records and was a step on , musicaly speaking face their debute. Growling vocals of course, like old death metal school no clean vocals interluded, it happens to be a good thing, very tight musicianship and above all a pleasent album all the way, realy. I know this band since they rlease their third album from 2002 and had high expectation with each album they release, because is one of the bands from this side of death metal, the perogressive one, where I find truly a great work by each musician , not only growlings and chainsaw at every second. Now Carcariass are very technical, imagine you combine Atheist with Death but with a much deeper voice then on those two - and you got Carcariass, fast riffs, very well done, intristing playing. Long pieces for this kind of music, something usual after all, because the band tries and succeded to capture what is strong in this style, long instrumental passages, strong druming and great musicianship overall. I will give to Sideral torment,, 3 stars for sure, good album but I think their next one is their peak and one of the greatness in this technical/progressive death metal. Fnas of the genre must take some time and take a listen to this band worth it, belive me.