Swedish death metal legends Paganizer are best known for their fast, catchy and jackhammering music that you can listen to for days on end and have some of their riffs stuck in your head for seemingly forever, but what few people realize is their knack for writing some terrific heart-ripping melodies. It’s more apparent in their last couple of albums and on their new one, they have honed that aspect of their sound even more. It’s a real treat when contrasted with their fast-paced buzzsaw music. Check their new music out AT THIS LINK.
Paganizer (Sweden) – Flesh Requiem (Death Metal)
Swedish death metal veterans Paganizer only seem to get better with age. Where most bands mellow down or start repeating themselves in a mechanical way, Paganizer‘s music has increasingly become more nuanced. They are able to express themselves far more effectively, both when swinging the axe and also when conjuring up the soul-tearing melodies out of thin air. They’re stepping out of their own shadow and imbuing their music with emotive tunes which work exceedingly well because of the contrast with the heavier parts. It’s naturally done too, part of taking the sound ahead rather than forcibly altering it. The result is a sound that is superbly tempered; a glorious, progressive alternating between the bone-splintering music and tuneful expressions of the innermost feelings. ‘Flesh Requiem’ has some of the best songs written by the band, a varied mix of the kind of music you’ve come to expect from the band and some refreshing epic ones, and with so many of them getting seared in your memory after listening to it, it’s easy to regard the album as among the finest in their extensive discography.
For fans of – Entombed, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, Desultory, Abscession, Typhonian, Vanhelgd
Line up –
Rogga Johansson – Guitars, Vocals
Dennis Blomberg – Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén – Bass
Matthias Fiebig – Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski (Devenial Verdict)
Track listing –
1. Life of Decay
2. Meat Factory
3. Flesh Requiem
4. Hunger For Meat
5. Viking Supremacy
6. World Scythe
7. Fare Thee Well (Burn In Hell)
8. Necromonolithic
9. The Pyroclastic Excursions
10. Just Another Doomsday
11. Suffer Again
12. Skeletons
Release date – November 1st, 2024