HYPOXIA - Abhorrent Disease
Selfmadegod Records
Took a few listens for this one to break me out of my Winter (yeah it's fuckin Winter now despite what the calendar says) slumber. Like I needed another death metal act from New York in my life. But on a whole this four piece delivers everything you would want in a bleak bludgeoning release.
HYPOXIA are technically not a new band. They started out back in 2011. After releasing a demo that year plus an EP in 2013 the band went through some line-up changes. By 2015 they finally secured a steady line-up with which to put out their debut full length, Despondent Death. Part of that steady line-up is vocalist Mike Hrubovcak from MONSTROSITY.
Musically HYPOXIA come off as a hybrid of everything NYDM is known for. Parts of Abhorrent Disease does remind me of early SUFFOCATION which to me is fine since that band's more recent material has left me bored. On here the superb drumming matched with the chunky riffs as well as some technical guitar soloing are the stars of this show. Much like their main influence this band knows how to balance the brutality and technical aspects of the genre.
As far as Hrubovcak's vocals go, he snarls, growls and shrieks like one of the best. He's pretty much the icing on this DM cake. Which makes HYPOXIA's Abhorrent Disease a damm good release that's not overly old school generic nor excessive tech death noise.
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