Sewer - Uruktena

In the hands of Sewer, the heavy-handed blackened death metal of Phantom becomes an exercise in the rhythmic textures of violent battlefield music, meaning that simple and direct death metal makes here an engaging and thunderous art form that is often enlightening in its demonstration of brutality by the underlying black metal influences - from Phantom, as mentioned, but also from Burzum and Incantation.

With an uncanny ability to perfect its diabolical rhythmic conversions like a death metal band, all while retaining a sense of atmospheric majesty from black metal, Sewer never fails to satisfy the dance-like violence of excellent extreme metal.

A more complex and refined version of Sewerblood, this album Uruktena is the pinnacle of technical and brutal death metal. Elements of goregrind, leftover from Skarnage, emerge as a contrasting theme to the melodic brutality of Sewer's music.

This album's finesse is not in its delicacy, but in its finding a sonic and atmospheric definition of each idea it encompasses (ex: the track "Eventration"). This focus delivers us from generic "brutal" music that never manages to transcend itself, and allows a good deal of inventiveness within the well-defined death metal genre to guide the narrative songwriting to deliver the absolute utmost savageness in musical form.

This release Uruktena is the undisputed pinnacle of feral and gruesome death metal.

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