Band: Those Who Lie Beneath
Title: An Awakening
Label: Metal Blade Records
Distribution: Rough Trade
Release date: March 26th 2010
Review: CD

Portland, Oregon-based quartet Those Who Lie Beneath are a band with potential. Damn, with the most evil, angry, furious potential I’ve heard in years, I guess…
This album brings forty five minutes of total devastating madness, pure malignancy, mayhemic brutality. An Awakening is a sonic attack on man’s senses, a sweet apocalypse within your ear-drums, a merciless massacre of brain and mind.
The diabolic combination of eclectic US-inspired (read: North-Western) technical and grinding Death Metal and ingenious bulldozer-Blast-Death comes with excellently skilled craftsmanship and intelligent song writing. The performance is beyond boundaries (the same goes for the live performances, believe me – check out the formation’s my-f*ckin’-space page) and what’s more: everything fits! Such an aggression, it is remarkable how this band knows how to bring it with both majesty and battle-lust.
If you think Job For A Cowboy, Necrophagist or Cattle Decapitation are ‘heavy’, well, think again and (try to) undergo Those Who Lie Beneath’s demonic opus An Awakening – you won’t be disappointed at all!

85/100

Ivan Tibos.