Band: Necrophobic
Title: Death To All
Label: Regain Records
Distribution: Suburban
Release date: June 2009
Review: CD

For about twenty years, Necrophobic belong to my favourite bands from Sweden. Throughout those two decades, the band’s style developed from a at that time renewing form of technical Death Metal into melodic and diabolic Death / Black Metal. The epic approach is one of the many surpluses, besides the killer compositions, the professional performance, the majestic sound, and the Swedish-oriented old school atmosphere. Most parts are both blaspheme and fast, the latter varying from up-tempo to lightning-fast, yet with many technical and ingenious tempo-changes. Death To All sounds more ‘massive’ than before, and besides, the war-lust and will to battle come with conviction and pride. A cold grimness covers the whole within a grey veil, leading these darkened hymns into spheres of death and glory. Sometimes, the band also creates rather bathorian elements, and even though this album can’t be labelled ‘renewing’, it certainly is a gargantuan monument with many surprising additions.

94/100

Ivan Tibos.