God Dethroned – “The Grand Grimoire”
God Dethroned combines death metal with blast beats to sound akin to Napalm Death “Harmony C.”, except that here you will find a lot more melody amid the chaos. The voice is death metal in the vein of Morbid Angel, Napalm D., early Death, etc.. The sound is clear and done well. It has a “big studio” sound. The drums are clear, whether it is the mid-paced melody, the straight ahead fast stuff of the blast beats. This is actually kind of surprising because God Dethroned seem to be oblivious to the pressure to play black metal. The songs stand well on their own and at times the band can get quite musical for a death metal band. Definitely worth keeping.