Just like Testament used in 1990, you too can hire mysterious cloaked figures for the low cosst of OVER $9000. Just dial 1-800-clo-aks1The correct word is asfixia, and I'm fully aware that this is broken Spanish. Don't like it? Fuck you. Oh, and Blood Oath is the best record that Suffocation have made since Pierced from Within.
I'm personally not a fan of the brutal death metal subgenre since bands like Devourment and Dying Fetus simply bore me (and are responsible for deathcore) although Suffocation has always had something different about them and by that I mean they understand the importance atmosphere instead of treating brutal death metal as a race to see who can tune their guitars the lowest.
Whereas a band like Whitechapel plays a breakdown that sounds like nothing more than chugging on some power chords, a Suffocation breakdown feels ominous, like something is sneaking up behind you, truly capturing the b-horror aesthetics of death metal in ways that few other bands seem to be capable of understanding. This is the way that breakdowns should be incorporated into death metal and most deathcore bands could learn a thing of two from this band.
As far as technical skill goes, Terrance Hobbes proves why he's one of the best metal guitarists to have ever lived. His riffs are technically without being overly wanky while his solos are complex in composition without being overly shreddy. Then again, Suffocation are the progenitors of tech metal, so it's naturel that they'd have a lot more substance to them than Dragonfore could ever have. Not that Dragonfore is crap by any... oh who am I kidding, Dragonfore is fucking garbage. Anybody up looking for something tech that isn't polluted by studio magic or some death meta with breakdowns should look no further.
8/10
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