UNDERGANG - Doden Laeger Alle Sar

June 24, 2015, 8 years ago

(Dark Descent)

David Perri

Rating: 7.5

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UNDERGANG - Doden Laeger Alle Sar

That record title apparently means ‘death heals all wounds’ in Danish but, let’s be honest, there’s absolutely no healing going on here on Undergang’s third full-length. Taking Entombed and Dismember’s ‘90s Swedish death template and then digging in the deep, deep dirt that Coffins calls its desolate home, Undergang’s (very) down-tuned approach to ‘90s death metal is like a new, more potent layer of malaise in an already dystopic world, a description that, admittedly, only makes sense in the context of understanding extreme metal’s ongoing fascination with hyperbole.

Death metal aficionados will rejoice (though with expressionless faces hidden behind the long hair) in knowing that Doden Laeger Alle Sar is a strong record that is immediate, visceral and well-written, the listener also continuously caught in the middle of the is-it-retro-or-is-it-new? battle that will rage in the right side of the brain (the right hand path?) as Doden Laeger Alle Sar does its claustrophobic bidding. David Lee Roth is an odd source to quote in an underground death metal review, but he may have unwittingly summed up Undergang’s re-wiring of Stockholm’s classics when he said, about Van Halen’s 2012 reunion album, “think of it like watching Dragnet on your iPad.” Or like streaming Autopsy's first LP on your smart phone?



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