While many bands are playing death metal that is rooted in the old school sound, Live Burial have elaborated upon it, adding various elements from genres such as thrash metal and doom metal, making it all the more intricate, challenging and engrossing. It’s not the same predictable death metal that you’d expect, even though sonically it resembles many of your classic favourites such as Morgoth, Asphyx, Unleashed, Atrocity, etc. Metal Bite premiered a scathing new track that can be found AT THIS LINK.
PRESS –
– “a luxurious feast of rotten and ruthless riffing” – Nattskog (UK) 9/10
– “a titan of great proportions in the world of Death Metal” – Metallerium (Mexico) 8.6/10
– “an incredibly well written album” – VM Magazine (Netherlands)
– “going to fascinate fans of the genre” – Two Guys Metal Reviews (US)
– “the very definition of wildly compelling” – Head-banger Reviews (US)
– “Outstanding” – Metal Division (Germany) 8/10
– “capable of both suffocating hope and supercharging the senses with high-voltage energy” – No Clean Singing (US)
– “Live Burial continue to impress” – Wonderbox Metal (UK)
– “Real old school worship, but it still fascinates” – Metal Experience (Netherlands) 75/100
Live Burial (UK) – Curse of the Forlorn (Death Metal)
Genre – Death Metal
Release Date – September 23rd, 2022
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of – Asphyx, Unleashed, early Atrocity, Morgoth, early Vermin, Skeletal Remains, Thorn, Heads For The Dead
Two years after the release of their highly acclaimed full length ‘Unending Futility’, UK’s strongest purveyors of classic death metal Live Burial return with a new full length which is a staggering improvement over it in all conceivable ways. As if new techniques have been unlocked, the songwriting on this record is far more intricate and multi-faceted, with the band not only relying on their trademark lurching doomy death metal crawl but also expanding upon the scope by adding new textures and influences, including those sounding Finnish in origin. Despite these enhancements in sound, the music has only become faster, more aggressive and scathing, with vocals being acerbic enough to melt flesh but also somehow carry emotion, which in turn are magnified by excellent lead-playing. This is the culmination of the purest form of death metal worked upon to make it relevant, nay, cutting-edge in terms of extremity, technical proficiency and even emotive capability where this old school style of music goes.
Line up –
Jamie Brown – Vocals
Rob Hindmarsh – Guitars
Jake Bielby – Guitars
Lee Anderson – Bass
Matthew Henderson – Drums
Artwork by Luke Oram (Slugdge)
Track list –
1. Despair of the Lost Self
2. The Ordeal of Purification
3. My Head as Tribute
4. Exhumation and Execution
5. Blood and Copper
6. Sepulchre of Collapsed Kingdoms
7. This Prison I Call Flesh