Atwater: The promotion around Sadistic Grimness’ second album is seems a bit weird to me. The album was released in March of this year, but it took the label until this month to enable us to give this CD a proper review
This Swedish band was, until this month, an unknown outfit to me, for I never heard from Sadistic Grimness before. Now let us continue with Sadistic Grimness second assault. What is heard here is a decent CD filled with blackend oldschool death metal with traditional underground sauce. Delicious, and fair! The vocalist, who sometimes sounds reminiscent to Steffen Simestad (Gehenna), doesn’t sound dynamic in this production. Nevertheless I played ‘Asteni’ almost the entire week. Sure, this is not innovative death / black metal, but I don’t care it isn’t!
Sadistic Grimness incorporates only tiny pieces of black metal in their sound, but they manage to let it work to the maximum! I wonder what this band would sound like if they add some more black in their blackend death metal, maybe some masterpiece could be created then. On this release, the sound, atmosphere and brutality work well together. The black metal influences add a chilly atmosphere and extra dimension to the CD. The raw production, which ensures that there is nothing to miss, fits very well with the atmosphere, style and straightforward attitude that this band has! The guitar work contains primitive Scandinavian and Morbid Angel-like riffs, and that sounds quite obscure.
For lovers of oldschool Death / Thrash / Black, definitely worth a listen!
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