New album for Unflesh.
Created in 2014 in the United States as solo project by Ryan Beevers (vocals/guitare ex-Solium Fatalis), the musician finally decides to recruit. Today, Orin Hubbard (bass, ex-Excrecor) and Jeff Saltzman (drums, Aversed, live for Allegaeon, ex-Solium Fatalis) walk with them for Inhumation, its second album.
The band’s style is based on Technical Death Metal with very marked Melodic influences, and Behold Nightfall has the role to teach us this. This worrying introduction won’t be long to add a catchy rhythmic on this clean sound, then Vast Forest of Impaled Cadavers immediately comes next. No time to breathe, riffs fall fast upon us, melting technicality, violence and those raging melodies that catch us to the throat, just like those wild howlings. To Renounce Flesh and Blood offers hooking harmonics and those dissonant melodies, while striking with relentless rhythm changes, then Inhumation, the eponymous track, comes next. Heaviness, effectiveness and bloody riffs meet under visceral howlings during this long composition, that assaults us from the beginning before a soft final.
Amongst Horrors Must I Dwell’s introduction comes next with dark tones, then finally a weighing ambience. The rhythm section offers a catchy groove, allowing guitar and vocals the possibility to offer more piercing and dissonant tones, then frenzy seizes musicians. It will be the same for Holocaust of Stars, a raw song that doesn’t neglect technicality spurts, neither piercing leads, and for the impressive The Sepilchral Depths. The song is massive, and crushes us before dropping vicious leads on this fast basis. We do not feel any dead time in the song, and it finally drops us on Dehumanized Legion. The composition takes some Prog accents, while keeping its unholy energy, its morbid liveliness and its strong technicality, but accelerations will also be part of the song before a heady final part.
Unflesh slowly grows, but the band advances from release to release. Inhumation melts piercing technicality, morbid heaviness and demonic energy to offer interesting composition that will please to every Death Metal lover.
80/100