Review: Scarred – Scarred
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
Aggressive, oppressive, evil, and avant-garde. What more do you want?
Descend may be the band that us Opeth fans have been looking for all these years. This is an album that is truly remarkable. A faithful continuation of Opeth’s formula all while keeping updated with the meta of twenty years of progressive death metal.
Style: Blackened Death Metal (harsh vocals)Review by: CallumCountry: US-WARelease date: 14 February, 2022 NOTE: This album was originally included in the “Albums We Missed in 2020” Issue of The Progressive Subway It always boggles my mind when a band’s debut album sounds as polished as a seasoned veteran’s, and even Read more…
Is it death metal? Questionable. But it is an exceptional progressive metal release nonetheless.
Just a ripping technical death metal album that does not have a single boring moment or riff. And there are a lot of riffs.
Some good slammin’ death/deathcore jams with some extra spice thrown in.
The next generation of progressive death metal is in good hands.
A death/thrash blend that falls a bit flat in more ways than one.