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.