Band: Cemetery Filth
Album: Dominion
Label: Unspeakable Axe Records
Boris Records
Genre: Death Metal
They say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, yet if you like myself see the doom laden cover for Dominion and say to yourself, "man, I bet this will be some nasty old school death metal worship," you'd be right on the money.
Cemetery Filth is based out of Atlanta, GA, and they dig deep into the humid depths of the Southern United States particular flavor of death metal. A couple of the main influences I can quite vividly hear would be Morbid Angel and Malevolent Creation, but one could argue a number of other influences as well. That being said, Cemetery Filth refuse to be yet another carbon copy of others, and continue to surprise the listener with songs that grow at a dynamic pace throughout the listening of the record.
Kilpatrick's growls are in your face and sure to please the old school fans in the house, while also doing double duty on guitar. Guinn on lead guitars weave hypnotic visions of death, with Kelley (bass/backup vox) and McDonald (drums) rounding out the rest of the lineup. Each musician has parts where they shine separate of the others, like the great bass line on track 6, "Churning of the Shallows" or the blistering solo at the end of track 5, "Festering Vacuity."
I honestly have listened to Dominion probably about 20 times now over the past several days attempting to find anything I didn't like or enjoy, and I've been proven over and over that this is an extremely solid record. For this to be a debut album is particularly impressive, and I'll be waiting with anticipation to see them live one day. This is raw death metal, brimming with blood, sweat and desperate emotive lyrical passages. This is the sound of OSDM at it's finest.
I'm giving Dominion a 8/10
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