The Ultimate Review of Redeeming Filth

Despite my great enthusiasm for Swedish death metal, and things that sound like it, Centinex passed me by year after year. Even despite their being hailed as a pretty solid early contributor to the grisly and groovy sound of d-beats thrashed out alongside great throbbing riffs that low like the devil's own Satanic herd. Still, they have members of the great Demonical (whose set I caught part of this year and who are heavy as hell live) and of the solid Interment, whose stuff I also have around somewhere. Par for the course stomach-turning gore lyrics combine with churning and booming riffs that will bring that acid right up into the larynx on their latest full-length.

The vocals of October Tide's Alexander Hogbom are particularly excellent, and he's actually a new addition to the hell of this all, along with Demonical's guitarist Sverker Widgren. He's got a great throaty, nasty spewing vocal style that sounds a bit like some of the more pissed off takes Jorgen Sandstrom has been doing for TorturFinal Score: 64 / 100