Zitat:After having a ball in 2008 and becoming by far the favorite record label of headbangers all around the world, Razorback have kicked off 2009 right where they left off in 2008. Last year this label single-handedly proved and showed that old school metal is alive and well by putting out release after release each better than the last all of which were in the vein of 80”™s death metal by introducing to us bands like Acid Witch, Hooded Menace and Decrepitaph.

This year Razorback has introduced us too another death metal band from Sweden by the name of Revolting. Much like the death metal bands introduced to us by Razorback last year this band like the others play Swedish death metal as it should to complement the Swedish death metal scene for their contributions to metal for Sweden is to death metal what Bay Area is to thrash. Just take a look at the band logo. A melted green grotesque zombie face which is mutilated apart with it”™s eyes hanging out of its sockets and hanging by the veins with the band”™s name written by the blood which has oozed out from the skull and is in between the face which is now ripped in two parts. Just in case you have not come to know by know they obsessed with the 80”™s horror-gore-splatter movies, which must not be a big surprise to those who have heard even a single release by Razorback last year.

The music is a flashback to the early days of Razorback as it is much influenced by early horrordeath metal acts like Lord Gore and Frightmare. However much the music the influenced by these acts it manages to retain a tinge of originality because the band is headed by one of the most prolific death metal composers our time has known, Rogga Johansson.

You enter the band”™s MySpace and the words that you first see are, “Rotting, Grotesque, and Putrid REAL DEATH METAL!” and that the band sounds like “The Blob devouring your bones and flesh while you puke out your intestines, blood, and green bile”. This, my friend speaks volumes about the band and the music. The band plays death metal the way it should be played. The songs are catchy, intense, headbangable and fast. Expect no keyboards. Expect no clean vocal sections. Expect no mercy, but expect a relentless assault of putrid death right at your face, chopping and hacking away at a stunned you and you cannot look away.

The highlight of this release, which spans 30 minutes and unleashes 9 tracks, is the amazing work on lead guitars. They sound crisp and release unto us a plethora of riffs of all varieties with the word brutal imprinted at the very core of each one. For guitar solo freak, this one isn”™t for you because there isn”™t a single one.

The vocals are entirely growls and the lyrics are at times decipherable. The bass is audible at times and doesn”™t get lost in the mix. The production is such that the record even sounds like it was recorded in the 80”™s and yet there remains a certain hue and tinge of modern production throughout, much like was the case with British thrashers “Evile”™s” debut album “Enter The Grave”. Another thing that deserves a special mention is the highly pro-efficient drumming. It goes extremely well with the music and doesn”™t hog the attention. It”™s not something you”™d pay attention to but then again “a true hero is one that does good deeds without being noticed”, eh?

There is no point in discussing each track separately as the album sounds best when heard as a whole but a personal favorite for me are the tracks, “They”™re Not Human” and "Brainwaves Of Death". What are you waiting for? Go, get it, get devoured and you”™ll enjoy it.

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