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Dutch death metal band Severe
Torture release a live album of sorts. “Bloodletting”
is made up of fifteen tracks and over fifty minutes of brutal death
metal. It’s not totally a live disc though. The first nine tracks
are the live material, then there’s a cover of the Pestilence
song “Lost Souls.” Finishing the CD is the previously
unavailable demo material on the last five tracks. The demo stuff
isn’t great quality but good enough you can thrash around too.
I found myself head banging to many songs. Catchy galloping death
metal riffs are mixed with speed driving blast beats and lots of bottom
heavy riffs. Guttural death vocals are like Dying Fetus and the death
screams like Cannibal Corpse. With the live material you loose the
feel because the recording sounds good for a live disc, better than
a number of studio efforts. The quality of the recording sounds is
so good sometimes it doesn’t sound live anymore. I’m fairly
unfamiliar with Severe Torture but this live CD would put hair back
on a dead man. Rating: 74 |
