Band: Grendel
Title: A Change Through Destruction
Label: Firedoom - Firebox Records
Distribution: Firebox Records - Hard Life Promotion - Displeased - Bertus
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Review: CD

This new album by the Finnish horde Grendel brings the best this band created throughout the years. Meaning: this is the strongest recording to date! A Change Through Destruction isn’t that different from Lost Beyond Retrieval (2006) or last year’s mini-album Hail Life, but it seems that the compositions are written with a deeper intelligence, and the recordings were done with a better production.
In fact, this album stands for almost fifty minutes of varying and melodic Death-inspired Metal with attention for Groove-elements and modern influences (like, for example, the clean vocals). The tempo varies a lot, yet the overall tempo floats between rather slow and mid-tempo, interspersed with only a few faster parts.
Grendel do not renew. Grendel do not need to renew. Grendel do what they need to do: creating the stuff they want to play, creating the material some of us want to hear.
Melodic and slow modern (Death) Metal with a Finnish atmosphere (melody, keyboards, tempo-changes, melancholy, catchy grooves, …), that’s what this release stands for.

81/100

Ivan Tibos.