Band: Beneath The Massacre
Album title: Marée Noire
Label: Prosthetic
Distributor: Prosthetic Records
Release date: 14/09/2010
Release: CD

Beneath The Massacre has always been a band I never could put in one specific spot. One time they sound like a deathcore band, the other time they sound like a real-deal technical death metal band. On this five-track album, they rather tend to lean to the death metal point of view, which is a very good thing.
The last couple of years, Canada has offered us a lot of great death metal acts, such as Kataklysm, Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, … Beneath The Massacre is another band in that same list.
Marée Noire, a French album title as Beneath The Massacre hails from Montreal, was released to introduce an upcoming record as the follow up to previous full-length Dystopia, which was warmly welcomed by several magazines and websites.
Although the album of this new CD is French, there isn’t a single French song on the album. The album kicks in with The Casket You Slept In. It immediately sets the tone for a, rather short, travel through the world of guitar shredding and double-bass pounding.
The only shame on the entire album is the out-fade on the end of the first song. It could have ended way more powerful than that.
There is one very remarkable thing about the first and last track on Marée Noire: they both start with the same sort of feedback. This gives you the impression that the album is starting over again, while it isn’t. Technical death metal is all about small differences between songs, right? Well, here I give you one other bands wouldn’t even think off.
Marée Noire definitely sets a strong tone and makes me curious for more … of the same Beneath The Massacre.

90/100

Nick Tronckoe.