This is classic nineties Death Metal. Basically a version of Death without Chuck Schuldiner From Beyond was Massacre’s debut and from the opening brutality of Dawn of Eternity a track featuring one of THE hugest riffs in the history of Death Metal, the track shreds and is a perfect start to the album. Cryptic Realms is next and snaps in with a down beat before rumbling along in perfect surgical precision. Besides those two aforementioned tracks the whole album is chock full of solid Death Metal, head down, furious double bass and compressed guitar tone that goes on for days.
These were the days when Death Metal was still in its infant stages, not many bands were utilizing the blast beat yet, so early Death Metal albums were just really fast Thrash albums without the falsetto vocals. I mention the guitar tone again because it’s so perfectly compressed that it resembles a buzzsaw cutting through bone.
This being a cast off Death, there is a Death cover in the form of Corpse Grinder, the best way to end the album. Top tracks are, obviously, the ones I mentioned and even what I haven’t as there isn’t a dull track on the whole album. From Beyond proved to be Massacre’s best album and they broke up after 1994′s terrible Promise.
This remains one of my top ten Death Metal albums, really a brilliant slab of what Death Metal in the early 90′s was all about.
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