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░ ██ ██ Artist: Gorgosaur ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Lurking Among Corpses █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2016 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2019-06-29 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Death Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Memento Mori ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Emerging from the depths of the underground, █
█ Swedish death metallers Gorgosaur showcase their █
█ love for the old-school with their selected name █
█ from an actual creature of the earthÆs history. █
█ This is more than appropriate on display in their █
█ first full-length album, which was released April █
█ 25, 2016 on Memento Mori, as this impressive beast █
█ rumbles and strikes like a true dinosaurian █
█ attack. █
█ From the outset, this here is given the classic █
█ Swedish death metal charge that appears so █
█ fervently in the countryÆs acts, and the inclusion █
█ of the classic chainsaw-churning groove litters █
█ the album from start to finish. This display of █
█ these traditional riffing and frantic █
█ full-throttle rhythms that allows them to move █
█ forward at the typical tempos and still generate █
█ the kind of effective atmosphere typically █
█ associated here. This attack lets it to delve deep █
█ into the rather frantic display of attacks from █
█ the old-school wave where the charging riffing and █
█ dynamic drumming were all at the forefront of the █
█ style found there, and it brings this out in raw █
█ form here. The problem here is that the album is █
█ indeed too raw for itÆs own good, with the short, █
█ blitzkrieg-style found here not really allowing it █
█ the chance to really get a much more distinctive █
█ rise out of these tracks. TheyÆre just so familiar █
█ and tend to run through so many familiar elements █
█ that it just reads as yet another old-school █
█ Swedish death metal band paying homage to the █
█ greats of the past. Granted, a lot of that is █
█ perhaps due to the fact that this one just doesnÆt █
█ really have any kind of time to get this done with █
█ the brief track lengths with only a few of these █
█ songs breaking the three-minute mark so itÆs █
█ opportunities to really change that up as the █
█ simplicity of the riff-work keeps this so █
█ straightforward and to-the-point it doesnÆt get to █
█ really do much about it. Otherwise, thereÆs a lot █
█ to like overall about this one. █
█ While running into yet another common problem █
█ found in so many of these Swedish death metal █
█ projects of not being inherently original about █
█ itself, thereÆs still a good deal amount of █
█ positives found here to make this a select choice █
█ for anyone even remotely appreciative of that █
█ particular scene or just old-school death metal in █
█ general. █
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░ 1. Basement Funeral Hymn 1:28 ░
░ 2. Terror Incarnate 2:59 ░
░ 3. In Darkness They Come Crawling 3:20 ░
░ 4. Body Snatchers 3:05 ░
░ 5. Pyromaniac Narrations 3:23 ░
░ 6. Lurking Among Corpses 2:50 ░
░ 7. Gashes and Demise 3:47 ░
░ 8. The Antropophagus 3:08 ░
░ 9. Burial of Rats 3:24 ░
░ 10. Death Is Psychosomatic 2:43 ░
░ 30:07 ░
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