While my love for death metal reaches across pretty much every the style has to offer from its purest incarnations to the very outer rim of the genre as the line begins to blur, it’s with the seething base of the underground where death metal takes on a form of pulsating mass that I’m interested the most. It was four years ago that I heard Embrional’s previous effort of “The Devil Inside” where my interest in that madness was first planted, and it’s now this Polish act has returned with another slab of immense death metal with even a little bit more technicality to make it even more delicious.

When I first heard Embrional, there was just something that wasn’t right about the band and it was something that I simply couldn’t get over. It’s that exact feeling that’s helped mold my taste of death metal into what it has become today, and returning after four years with “Evil Dead” is just the sort of thing I’ve been needing. There are and always will be plenty of acts that populate the seething floor of the underground, but very few seek to better themselves on a different level while still bathing themselves in that underground filth of goodness, and then pull it all off. A very delicate set of things to balance, but Embrional has executed it with deadly precision as quite possibly the entirety of “Evil Dead” is the most menacing thing I’ve heard for a good while. All eight tracks of this mind-melter truly work their way into the corporeal as well as the ethereal with seemingly little strain as Embrional smashes at every turn through either filth-drenched riffs or sheer madness the likes of which only the underground can produce with such potency, and it’s all so fucking infectious to boot! Not a single track from this maddening record is one to sleep on as Embrional packs so much action into what seems like so little time as “Evil Dead” wastes no time whatsoever, leaves no prisoners but only blood in its midst and the force of it all is so brutal that said blood is reduced to a fine mist come to the end of this visceral record. And when that rolls around, you’ll be scrambling to hear more as Embrional has achieved the goal and made “Evil Dead” a series of death howls that you can’t go without.

I knew that it was sooner or later that Embrional would return with more material, and while I feel as though their previous effort is more my speed, I cannot deny the raw power and undeniable force that is “Evil Dead” even in its simplest moments. As their most mature album to date, Embrional delivers us yet another powerful push of death metal the likes of which I simply can’t help but recommend for any fan of the genre.

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