PESSIMIST

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: USA
Style: extreme intense technical death metal

third and latest so far full-length [2002] by still active American death metal entity expands on trademark straightforward model of the first two longplays with a darker and deeper atmosphere, adding eerie vibe alongside fast, aggressively chopping riffs through gloomier harmonies and dynamic contrasts, relying not only on constant speed but also on more nuanced pacing, abrupt rhythmic shifts and bursts of almost atomic energy, reminiscent of such chaotic incarnations as Hate Eternal, while preserving raw and organic sound that allows every guitar scrape, wild fury of the drums and low, suffocating roar to be clearly heard, carving this set of ten tracks into the annals of US extreme metal history; recent French edition with a remastered sound, revised artwork and additional demo version of Summoned To Suffer marks twentieth anniversary of this recording