Undersave is back in action.
In 2025, Nuno Braz (vocals/guitar), Renato Laia (bass, Espurco), Pedro Pereira (drums, Frost Legion), and André Carvalho (guitar, Phreneticis) signed with Transcending Obscurity Records to release their third album, Merged in Abstract Perdition.
Although the opening moments of the first track, Unshakable and Unlimited Levels of Obsession, are fairly quiet, it doesn’t take long to discover the full complexity of their thick and dark Death Metal, starting with chaotic harmonics combined with a heavy basis and massive vocals. The mix seems unstoppable, combining very raw roots with confident technicality, allowing for some disturbing moments before letting Unconscious Assimilation…Path To Tangible Reality first give in to violence before developing its menacing leads. Far from offering us a uniform sound, the band doesn’t shy away from offering accelerations and changes in tone on the vocal side, at times abandoning the cavernous growl for more plaintive cries, but the guitars lose themselves in their madness to finally join Effervescent Futile Thoughts of a Phobic Being to continue fueling the ambient chaos. While the fast passages are in the majority, there are also moments of agonizing slowness that contribute to this climate of permanent terror, while Forced Retraumatization…Unlocking Spiritual Illumination immediately offers us imposing tones whose regularity is once again disturbed by raspy harmonics. The change is quite abrupt, allowing the sound to remain catchy while the musicians anchor themselves even more firmly in their brutal strangeness, which we find in a slightly more jerky form with Fictitious And Impermanent Self-Refinement, whose aggressiveness is only briefly set aside. The track remains divided between organized virulence and unpredictable elements, but it is the shortest on the album, and its fury hits hard, as does Fathomless Contempt Nourished By Unrealistic Predictions, which mixes occult touches with its onslaught and doesn’t hesitate to allow waves of crushing double bass drumming before letting madness take hold of the vocalist. The solo brings us back to the reality of this nightmarish universe, then Narcissistic Supreme Alienation takes over and plunges us headfirst back into the vortex of darkness and intertwined riffs that the band knows and loves to create, combining all their power with the surprise effect of certain passages until the very last second.
If Death Metal must be a real organized mess in your mind, you’ve come to the right place with Undersave! Merged in Abstract Perdition will terrify you as much as it will amaze you, while taking you on a journey through riffs as imposing as they are labyrinthine.
85/100