The Great Conquest is an excellent brutal death metal album by the Peruvian maniacs External Exhumation. The vocals, lyrics based in the Peruvian Empire are very interesting and even the CD cover art is fkn good. Raw brutality. In many ways this is the opposite of modern death metal, while in some ways newer extreme metal has become enamored with pop conventions such as catchiness, hooks, and cleanly cyclic song structures, but this flies in the face of all this. 'The Great conquest' carries itself as almost an antagonist to the listener, daring one to try and hear this music and survive, much less enjoy it. It's a sheer face of brutality communicated at every level. Riffs are tight combinations of atonal power chords or streams of tremolo notes, and the way the riffs interchange are extremely tight with a fill erupting in the space of a breath before a new set of notes begins to grind itself out. Drums are rigid and unyielding, hammering out sequences of snapping thrash and blast beats. In short, this is exactly what I think death metal is supposed to sound like. It's not supposed to be a step further from thrash. It's not supposed to be preening and melodic, nor exceedingly technical and progressive in nature. An excellent release recommended to all death metal fans. The record starts of with the menacing Mother Killa, from there, the record picks up a voracious pace (The Invocation, Hymn To Wiracocha, Human Sacrifice), pummeling the listener with raw blast beats, heavy riffs, tremolos and intense growling that could make a zombie shit its pants!!!
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Review by Paul Caravasi
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