Centinex has a new album on the way.
Active since 1990 despite a hiatus between 2006 and 2014, the band led by Martin Schulman (bass, Demonical, ex-Interment), Jörgen Kristensen (guitar, Dead Awaken), Henrik Andersson (vocals, Macabre Decay), and Florian Rehn (drums, Moth) is unveiling its twelfth album, With Guts And Glory, for its thirty-fifth anniversary.
We get straight to the point with Becoming, the first track, where we find that abrasive sound, raw blast beats, and Henrik‘s macabre vocals, forming that recognizable and enjoyable Old School mix. Harmonics and accelerations are obviously part of the process, as on the lively and motivating Your Religion Dies Tonight, which combines blasphemy and groovy violence in the purest Swedish tradition. The track remains fairly accessible, flirting with certain elements of Death’n’Roll before flowing very naturally into Gods Of Guilt, a slightly more mid-tempo track that is still very catchy and will have us banging our heads in rhythm. The atmosphere is revitalized with the arrival of I Am The Way, a much faster composition with a contagious fury that is ideal for concerts, but which passes a little too quickly to A Masterpiece In Flesh, returning to blast beats and groove. This track is also perfect for live performances, uniting an audience that is probably already won over before moving on to In My Dreams, which makes no compromises and transforms its despair into pure violence, notably with a heavier and slower break. We continue with some more piercing Thrash influences on Symphony Of Screams, but which places airy melodies on the choruses to fuel the contrast before letting Sorrowtears sound the final charge, composed of this high tempo and these overcharged riffs that incorporate bloody harmonics, but which will end rather abruptly.
Centinex represents more than thirty years of pure Death Metal, rooted in its Swedish origins and perfectly capable of creating accelerations, piercing melodies, frenzied headbanging, but above all, that recognizable riffing. With Guts And Glory is its worthy successor.
90/100
