CRAWL - Rituals
Transcending Obscurity Records
When I saw this was death metal from Sweden I kinda was optimistic. Then I gave it a listen and well my attitude changed dramatically. CRAWL does feature a group of musicians firmly rooted in death metal by way of their other bands or former bands. One of those bands is DEMONICAL who I know well. A couple of others are DECOMPOSED and DISCARNATE. But musically CRAWL is a fusion of death metal and hardcore.
That style is nothing new in fact another cool band from this label, the Rogga Johansson/ Dave Ingram project DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, does a damm great job at it. DISFEAR makes a career of it when they're not trying to resurrect AT THE GATES again. Even the early days of Swedish death metal have some elements of hardcore as well as thrash in their sound. CRAWL actually bleeds out hardcore grooves that reminds me of the late 80s / early 90s style which the new kids called crust (we just called it all hardcore back then).
As far as the death metal attributes CRAWL brings forth I'm thinking latter day DISMEMBER. By the way this is CRAWL's debut full length. They put out a demo and an EP in 2015. I'm guessing this is just a cool side project by a couple of guys who wanna play something other then straight up death metal.
https://tometal.com/
https://crawldeath.bandcamp.com/album/rituals-death-metal
https://www.facebook.com/CRAWLSWE/
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