HEAVING EARTH - Denouncing The Holy Throne
February 25, 2015, 9 years ago
(Lavadome Productions)
When it comes to death metal, we've heard it all before, but, still: get a load of Czech deathsters Heaving Earth, who made their intent pretty clear pretty early on by naming their band after a Morbid Angel song. But the name is totally suitable to the frantic, full, death metal the band spits out here on their second album, the music technical but not so tech you can't play those fast blasting air drums to them and also get some kinda feeling out of the whole experience. The sound is just so full it's absurd, thanks mainly to the drummer, who seems to be hitting every single part of his drum kit during every single second of this album, the guy just killing it all over this thing, not that his bandmates are slouches, either: "Doomed Before Inception" features some cool creepy guitar riffing and "Worms Of Rusted Congregation" gets slow and sludgey the way all bands like this should once every four songs or so.
So, yeah, check everything off the checklist but bump this one up a point from many of their peers (then take it down half a mark for the draining 50-minute length) because of the sheer amount of everything happening here, the production bringing it all out in a natural way, and the listener actually getting something out of it, which puts this more on line with technical death metal of a Nile quality and flavour than that of an ultra-tech DM band whose name you forget as soon as the swirling tail-chasing ends.