MACABRA - ...To The Bone

July 26, 2016, 7 years ago

(Morbid Visions Music / Vonfrost)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.5

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MACABRA - ...To The Bone

Macabra conjure up a genuine old-school death-metal atmosphere here in the best of ways, this second album from these two fellas (one from Belgium, one from the USA) raw and grimy, almost to a fault: there are times when things threaten to simply collapse into each other under the weight of all the doom-tinged death, but it always works out in the end, the songs not exactly memorable but certainly doing the trick while they're playing. 

There are moments, such as the vocal effects in “Oppression Delegation” or the added sounds and atmospheres in the cool “Crucified Individuals Nation” or the eerie vibes found in opener “Death Speculation”, that remind me of classic goosebump-raising moments on the first two Entombed records, the little flourishes that both made the band stand out and brought home the point that death metal ruled, then, now, always. The production here isn't exactly crisp and clean (the vocals in particular get pretty rough at times), but it does bring to mind some of the murkier production sounds of the late '80s and early '90s, which is precisely what these guys are aiming for, I can only imagine. Maybe it's the Dan Seagrave artwork talking, but this one has pure, classic DM at its heart, and we love it for that.



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