Sectioned 

Purulent Reality

Paragon Records 2010

Powerful grooves and meaty riffs anchor the sound of Britain's death metal traditionalists, Sectioned on their debut album.  From the opening moments of A Lonely Grasp of Winter a statement of intent is made, thick, midtempo riffing will be ultilized to crush the listener, soffocatign them with heavy rhythms and a confident no-frills approach which takes a nod to fellow countrymen, Boltthrower and Floridian death pioneers, Massacre.  Lumbering grooves, heavy as an armored tank leveling battlefields with its smashing weight is what we are confronted with on My Love of Decay which broods like the rabid child of Boltthrower's feral copulation.  There are some Paradise Lost-ish meldoic leads towards the song's end which of course give way again to those aforementioned devastatingly heavy riffs.  Generating a slightly more aggressive feeling by accelerating the sawing feel of the guitars due to faster picking the main riff of Loneliest Man grinds through bone as it methodically eviscerates your brutalized corpse.  A fat bass guitar, thrashier Swedish leaning riffs and melodic leads creates a slight bit of drama on Behind My Eyes but the track bogs down in the middle with the chunky, grooves that lead nowhere.  Mirrors makes a slight reference shift as it holds a down-tuned buzzing Swedish feel before ultimately dwelling back in those samey chugging riffs.  Some of the tracks are overly long and the consistent drum patterns tend to leave the songs with a blending feel to them which can leave me a little bored.  Purulent Reality is a solid album of beefy death metal that stands firmly on the well worn path of their musical forefathers but remains just average overall as they don't do much to make themselves stand apart from their peers.