| CD REVIEW Obituary |
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Band : Obituary I'll be honest, my experience with Obituary has been the first two classic albums and their killing appearance at Dynamo Festival 91. Obituary has issued a number of albums between 1991and 2009 and I'd not managed to hear a single one of them. So, no doubt, I believed I was in store for serious perception issues and most bands manage to change quite a bit over 20 or so years. However, Darkest Day is not so different from Slowly We Rot and Cause Of Death that one would think it was a different band. Despite the band's constant revolving door band member situation, four-fifths of the original lineup have returned on this endeavor, giving long time fans something to cheer about. Darkest Day features eleven tracks with most songs clocking in at about four minutes. Obituary won't bother you with drawn-out epics, but package their crunchy Frost-laden riff-heavy style in concise and powerful buzzkill combinations. Relentless double bass drums leads the menacing assault on your senses with tracks like “Blood to give”, “Violent dreams” and “This life” while the tribal brutality of the title cut and the rapid-fire guitar work by new member Ralph Santolla found on “List of dead” and “Payback” gets the blood pumping and the fists banging with malicious intent Darkest Day is also given me serious reasons to searching out the band's back catalog. 91/100 Cosmicmasseur. |