CASKET ROBBERY - Evolution Of Evil

April 5, 2016, 7 years ago

(Mortal Music)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.5

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CASKET ROBBERY - Evolution Of Evil

Coming from Madison, Wisconsin, Casket Robbery do a good job here on their debut, the band firmly and resolutely playing death metal, but adding in a not-horrible groove and also managing to flirt with a brutal death metal sound without getting too cliché, and without forgoing song for extremity. “Blood Bathory” even adds another subgenre into the mix, as the band threatens to beat down with the breakdown of metalcore, but, again, it's an enjoyable sound, and Casket Robbery stretch out more than most. 

One of the best examples of this here is the instrumental “Undead Living Hell”, which comes at the halfway point of the album and is littered with samples and cool grinding death metal. “Curse Of The Night Stalker” adds in some clean singing that, get this, doesn't sound horrible. “Encroaching Darkness” adds in just a touch of tech-y guitar work and double-bass-led groove, but—yet again—it doesn't sound cliché. How is anyone's guess, because many of these parts alone sound horrible, but Casket Robbery have managed to make a nice concise (37 minutes) album out of it all, and it sounds great.



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