PESTILENCE

Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: NED
Style: intense menacing technical death metal

the quality of hands-down most-talked about and unprecedented considered opus [1991] by Pestilence partly falls upon genius Cynic bass player Tony Choy who joined the band at the time, and inspired team members to stretch their skills as well in order to master an exceptional idea to sound out of the box in the genre: aiming at highly technical and creative version of extremity with well-constructed performance, they have also introduced innovative musical thinking with short interludes between the heavy-weighted numbers, thus creating subtle, menacing, shrouded in mystery atmosphere, culminating in such timeless anthems as Land of Tears and Presence of The Dead, while Patrick Mameli effectively takes over the vocals duties; recent essential double disc edition in slipcase comes with a remastered sound, thorough liner notes and vintage photos in the booklet, and two live sets from the Netherlands in 1992 on the second disc