Band: Submission
Title: Code Of Conspiracy
Label: Blistering Records
Distribution: Bertus
Release date: 21/04/2009
Review: CD

In 2003, Christoffer Petersen and Kasper Kirkegaard formed Submission, and throughout the following years, the band performed with bands as Hatesphere, The Forsaken or Darkane, to name but a few, and they performed on the 2005-edition of the Roskilde Festival. 2005 and 2006 were very successful years, especially in their home country, by winning a few awards (among which best debut album for the release of Failure To Perfection; Listenable Records). However, the members’ other duties, with bands as The Arcane Order, Soilwork and Nightrage, put things on hold for a while. Kasper (g), Christoffer (g), Boris Tandrup (b), Morten Lowe Sorensen (d) and new vocalist Lasse Sivertsen (replacing Steven Quist) recently reformed the band, and they recorded this new album at the Konfus studio and the well-known Hansen Studio with producer Jacob Hansen. And what this band brings is stunning, not only because Lasse joined when the recording sessions had started yet. And his performance, an angry throat from the Deep, is incredible. Not only his grunt is pretty powerful, it sounds as if he is part of the band for years. Code Of Conspiracy brings, musically, very modern and very, very heavy (European) Death Metal with elements from (American) Metalcore and (Scandinavian) melodic Death / Thrash. The technical tracks are pretty brutal, guitar-driven, coming with a hammering rhythm section, and interspersed with finger-skilled solos. The tracks are pretty varying, and contain several breaks and changes, but one keyword stays: heaviness!

I’m not trusted with Blistering Records, by the way, because this label is known for bands and (solo) projects as Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, House Of Lords, Laaz Rockit, Jorn a.o.), which makes Submission the heaviest band on the label, I guess.

75/100

Ivan Tibos.