Council of the Fallen – “Deciphering the Soul”
This band has come up with good balance of brutal, blasting death metal, which is the main component, though there are other elements, like melody and catchiness. The thing I like about this is the willingness to do something different without losing the death metal approach. There are some tiny, brief parts with clean vocals and quite a bit of black metal screaming. Actually, the album has a few surprises, like the recurring black metal riffing, which with this type of production sounds more upfront than with the usual black metal production. Council of the Fallen is turning out to be–with this second album–quite a surprise and a band to check out, if you like brutal death metal, but want more than the same old repetition that a lot of bands do.