Crawl put out a remarkable debut full length in ‘Rituals’ which was talked about for years, and now six years later, they’re back with a brand new full length that’s a step above in all ways. They’ve taken their impactful, near-perfect death/crust sound and added some black metal influences this time around to make it even more expressive.
After whetting everyone’s appetites with their exciting split release with label mates Feral, Swedish death/crust titans Crawl finally unleash their highly awaited new full length after a gap of six years. They’ve not mellowed their sound as most bands would. Instead, they’ve rendered their sound even more devastating while making it more nuanced, perfecting their enviable balance of abrasive riffing and explosive breakdowns. Crawl keep mixing things around to keep things interesting and with bodies piling on top of one another, and what’s more, with the album progressing, they begin to reveal black metal influences ensconced in their sound. It’s good enough to have a Swedish death metal band showing how it’s to be done and savagely sawing everyone’s heads off with their rusted, jagged, crust-laden riffs, but for them to insidiously change the shades to black in the midst of all the mayhem is pure genius. They shape-shift as if to only deliver a final, decisive, finishing move through the speakers. Leaving no stone unturned, Crawl have come up with an album that should serve as an epitome of crust-ridden Swedish death metal in these times.
For fans of – Entrails, Dismember, Feral, Grave, Bloodbath, Lik, Black Breath, Vomitheist
Line up:
Joachim Lyngfelt (ex-Decomposed) – Vocals
Martin Sjögren – Guitars
Ämir Batar (ex-Demonical) – Drums
Ragnar Hedtjärn Ullenius – Bass
Track listing:
- Undead Crypts
- Throne Of Molten Bones
- Knives
- Curse Of The Morbid
- Ethereal Depths
- Where No Light Escapes
- Enslaved In Filth
- Vision Of Burning Apparitions
- Until They Crawl
- Into Sordid Rifts
- Buried Lust
