NOROTH have their debut album of monstrously dark Death Metal obliteration here. Out now via Caligari Records.
Eerie howling winds and creaking gates bring the horror before rupturing riffs and solid drums punch into life with the guttural spew of the vocalist. This is some crisp and cavernously huge Death Metal with ferociously killer songwriting. Macabre musical excellence continues to pummel forth a rancid, odious ichor of rotten insanity with a pungently captivating and mesmerising sound. A churned disdain and doomy soundscape of crawling offal continually keeps things moving with a monolithic conjuration of magnificence.
Truly astonishing in terms of the fantastic riffs and punctually ground-shaking drums with maliciously grim vocals, there is everything about the band one would want from some stoic and brutal Death-Doom from the atmospheric slower sections to the grave-opening visceral blasting tempest that ravage you with a sonic storm of Death Metal artillery. A murky productions suits the swampy, gutturally wonderful blows of mighty and glorious putridity. Certainly an awe-inspiring sound of brutal magnitude.
Calling you with its battering blastbeats, drawn out and resplendent riffs and grisly growls, this record is utterly crushing by all accounts. Throughout we are offered a slimy, growing cacophony of delights that is brought to life by marvellous musicianship, giving a really enticing and infectious performance. Invoking a classic approach to Death Metal while offering their own unique take on the genre, Noroth certainly dwell in a sewer of fantastically morbid dealings from which the band can give us some unforgettable material.
While I had never heard of this band previously (with this being their debut), I am glad to say that reviewing this record has certainly earned my respect and I definitely think these monstrous riff-masters deserve the respect of the underground Death Metal scene with their cavernously otherworldly tomes of disdainful gruesomeness. Memorable, rancid and tight Death Metal with all of the eerie murkiness one could hope for. -8.5/10
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