Bloodbath – “Nightmares Made Flesh”
Definitely an improvement on this, their third release. So far, with their first two, I found them generic and faceless, like a bar band playing “brutal” death. Well, this time the five members, who come from Hypocrisy, Katatonia, Witchery, Edge of Sanity, etc., have managed to sound like a band, not like a project. What’s the difference? You can take them seriously now. Before I got the feeling that Mikael Akerfeldt went to the studio to growl for an hour or two on a weekend when he did not have anything Opeth-related going on. Peter Tägtgren is now the growler. The songs and riffs are better. However, having said all that, this is not great, excellent music. It’s pretty good death, but it does not run with the big dogs, like Nile and Hate Eternal.