Recently Brazil’s Death Doom Metallers FOSSILIZATION unleashed their debut EP. Out now via Transylvanian Tapes and Everlasting Spew Records.
Immense, thick and cavernous guitars immediately spawn into fruition with atmospherics dripping so sullenly forth. Pounding kicks and chiming cymbals break open the dense murk before the full instrumental brutality cascades with an ambience akin to Finnish Death Metallers with utmost ferocity. A clear production full of low end warmth allows the fetid and yet resplendently eerie music to be heard with all the nuance and subtleties within. Dissonant melodies weave between the monolithic drums and titan riffing with a serpentine maliciousness that is superb to behold, grasping the brain with otherworldly tendrils as the magnificent musicianship unfurls its charnel horrors. The comparisons listed in the press kit include Dead Congregation, Krypts and Engulfed among more adored acts, not only is this what drew my attention but the duo certainly deliver this high quality, creepy and yet barbaric Death Metal brilliantly. Visceral blasting hooks and meaty riffs amidst unearthly doomy breaks that open into a catatonic swaying groove flow seamlessly together with transcendent efficiency. Thus far, Fossilization’s debut into the underground has not remotely disappointed.
Pulverising drums and monstrous riffs spew forth with their eldritch atmospherics as the hideously snarled vocals only accentuate the deathly and unhallowed sound. Spitting a venomous touch of dissonance truly ramps things up as the scornful Death Metal’s flare of doomy pacing is not allowed to decrease the sheer brutish intensity nor the scathing aggression they set out to create. Conjuring demonic apparitions through superb sonic onslaughts, only the most tastefully putrid elements are utilised in this 25 minute of desolate, savage and utterly oppressive Death Metal that will leave all festering in ecstasy at the tomb-crawling might of Fossilization, a name that will be heard a great deal in the underground, of this I can be sure. An excellent example of gloomy yet ferocious Death Metal which is brutal yet expansive, somehow both sparse yet packed with tight and punishing musicianship. Truly something vicious to bear witness to.
A titanic debut EP that is deserving of high praise from anybody who takes their Death Metal seriously. In the murky depths there is clarity, showcased here by 5 pungent pieces of masterfully crafted, ritualistic monstrosities. My stance of Death Metal being as strong as ever is only consolidated by releases such as this one. Do not miss out on this spectral opus of inhospitable morbidity.
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