DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall (CD, 2014)

Label: Martyrdoom Productions – MD001
Format: CD
Country: Greece
Released: 5th May 2014
Genre: Metal
Style: Death metal

Dead Congregation is a band that has carried the death metal flag forward with utmost conviction, in an age filled to the brim with old school revivals spanning the gamut of the genres that fall under aforesaid broad term. ‘Promulgation of the Fall’ is not as meandering as is attested by the immediate belligerence of ‘Only Ashes Remain’, cascading forward with tonally raucous blast-beats, atop which down-tuned riffing surges forth with a sense of contortion that is characteristic for this style. Dead Congregation do not restrict themselves to the comfort zone of the unrelenting chromatic riffing and atonalities that Incantation pioneered. Apart from the fantastically architectured segments of cavernous doom, the band exhibits a rich offertory of subtle and tasteful layers of melody in the leads that add a melancholic and emotional dimension to the otherwise down-trodden esotericism of this dark death metal style. Recommended for fans of Immolation, Incantation, Funebrarum, Morbid Angel, Grave Miasma.