Back to the cellar for Crypts of Despair.

Continuing their partnership with Transcending Obscurity Records, D.A. (vocals/guitar, Luctus, ex-Sisyphean), S.J. (bass/vocals, Fuck Off And Die!, Luctus, Svartthron), H.M. (drums, ex-Pime) and T.K. (guitar, Sisyphean) announce the release of We Belong In The Grave, their third album.

The album was recorded with Jonas Kanevicius on vocals before his departure from the band.

The album kicks off with the heavy atmosphere of We Belong In The Grave, the eponymous track which is also the slowest, and whose introduction sample will create a feeling of oppression before finally presenting us with the first dissonant riffs. If the band knows perfectly well how to feed its darkness with harmonics, it also knows how to show itself to be much heavier with a jerky rhythm and infernal vociferations such as we find on Terminal Dais, which strikes just after a moment of floating, and brings its own fury to the edifice. The track remains imposing when slowed down, but the musicians alternate paces to finally let us breathe before Obliteration Of The Impure, which follows in the same violent, impenetrable darkness, featuring the vocalist and Old School tones that perfectly match the waves of aggression. Expulsion To Purgatory immediately picks up, exploding in our faces without warning and borrowing as much from Brutal Death for the fast moments as from Blackened Death for the more dissonant passages, before taking another breather and finally showing itself to be more modern with Undisillusioned and its groovy but incredibly effective Slam Death patterns. I hope this track will feature in the band’s future setlists, as will Seizures, which begins with an ominous softness before revealing its dark heaviness in infernal waves of deathcore influences, before letting the vocals haunt us. Precipitous takes up the slack, slamming us mercilessly into the ground with its massive moshparts and disturbing sounds, as on Gaze Of The Adversary, which brings oppression back to life with more majestic melodic elements and passages whose sole purpose is to break our necks. The final blast is simply devastating, providing a perfect transition to Burial Of The World, a short instrumental finale where the sound is initially rather subdued, but the band still have a few surprises in store before closing the album.

Crypts of Despair‘s sound has evolved into a Death Metal as dark and macabre as ever, but played in a much heavier and more brutal way! If you like to feel oppressed and crushed to the ground, We Belong In The Grave will count among your favorite albums!

90/100

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