Band: The Cleansing
Title: Feeding The Inevitable
Label: Deepsend Records / Hell Xis Records
Distribution: Bertus
Release date: 23/05/2011
Review: CD

Even though the so-called ‘i-pool’ shit is meant to reach a wider review-audience, much stuff arrives late, very late, sometimes too late at our headquarters. Sometimes it’s pitiful, sometimes not. Never too late to promote good stuff either, it is, is it, indeed is it is ititits… Er???
The Cleansing hail from Denmark and did debut in 2009 with Poisoned Legacy, which did not penetrate my grey cells. This sophomore album was recorded (& mixed) at CB Studios with Christian Bonde (think Dawn Of Demise, Icon In Me) + mastered at the famous Cutting Room by Björn Engelmann (Within Temptation, Theatre Of Tragedy, Bloodbath, Adagio, Behemoth, Samael) + duration = 38:16 minutes.

The album: fabulous yet completely non-original Dedd Metaaahl with the sweetest equilibrium between primal forces and modernistic power, trespassing any limiting border and therefore internationally acceptable. From specifically ‘small’ to borderless: Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe, the Western Worlds, where does it end – it does not – it is Danish (and for Denmark being a superior force within the underground-oriented Death Metal scene one cannot ignore the inherent possibilities), it is Scandinavian, it is internationally acceptable, as mentioned before.

Pros: power, conviction, craftsmanship (mind the members’ related experiences in, for example, Usipian, Iniquity, Strangler etc.), sound (hammering and intensively hot).
Cons: lacking ANY form of originality, few variation…

Or: personally I couldn’t / can’t enjoy it completely for being too repetitive, too predictable, too whatever, and at the same time I need to add: I’ve heard worse, too much, before…
So: ???

Oh yes, with guest vocals on Crossroads by ex-Koldborn/ Strychnos’ M.L. Andersen…

70/100

Ivan Tibos.