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Artist......: Horrifier
Album.......: Howl From the Grave
Year........: 2022
Genre.......: Death Metal
Type........: Demo
Label.......: Independent
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1563kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 4 tracks
Playtime....: 00:14:58
Size........: 168.7 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-06-29
S.Date......: 2022-12-09
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/kujcnwpu51aka
01. Howl From the Grave 4:47
02. Brain Dead 1:32
03. Kandarian Rites 4:50
04. Hooks in Flesh 3:50
'Howl From The Grave' is a low key sounding debut demo
that fights through the murk and filth of lo-fi
production to offer up predatory and visceral Death
Metal with two speeds; slow and brooding putridity, and
a faster style that marauds forth into battle to drench
itself in viscera and gore. Horrifier themselves hail
from the lands more commonly associated with Black
Metal, but this Norwegian Death Metal quartet have no
issue in slumming it within the detritus and filth of
the Oslo sewerage system to create some truly horrific
sounds. Thick, rotten sounding riffs are the order of
the day, but beware the tainted meat from these grisly
chefs. Their usual style is build through glacial guitar
leads and drumming that rises to crescendo, before
unleashing volley after gore soaked volley of
putrescence and savagery, with a few guitar solos thrown
in for the sake of showing off. If you've got it, flaunt
it! That is apart from short track 'Braindead', which is
just an exercise in frantic brutality for the sake of
it, and why the hell not? That being said, the demo
isn't all voided bowels and gore; 'Kandarian Rites'
takes the demo to horrific and ancient places of
brooding Death Metal ferocity, before the band close
things down with 'Hooks in Flesh'. A mightily powerful
and effective debut offering from these Oslo death
merchants. Keep your ears sharp for more Nordic
butchery!