Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse

2008, Razorback Records

1.	Rotting Rampage (Menace of the Skeletal Dead)	05:20
2.	Fulfill the Curse	06:55
3.	Grasp of the Beastwoman	06:41
4.	Laboratory of Nightmares	06:10
5.	Beauty and The Feast	07:01
6.	The Eyeless Horde	05:51
7.	The Love Song of Gotho, Hunchback of the Morgue	05:44
8.	Arcane Epitaph	05:43
9.	Theme From Manhattan Baby	03:07

This Finnish band has made waves with their debut album, and for good reason - it takes influence from early 90's death/doom greats like Winter, Autopsy, Paradise Lost, etc, and adds in a hint of Candlemass-esque melodies. The result is pretty astounding, and truly satisfying for any fan of old school death/doom!

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Convulse - World Without God

1992, Thrash Records

1.	Introduction	00:49
2.	World Without God	04:55
3.	Putrid Intercourse	03:22
4.	Incantation of Restoration	03:45
5.	Blasphemous Verses	04:28
6.	False Religion	04:46
7.	Resuscitation of Evilness	03:45
8.	Infernal End	03:34
9.	Godless Truth	03:00
10.	Powerstruggle of Belief	04:01

For the third installment of my Finnish death metal craze comes Convulse. Simply put, these guys are fucking brutal. Relapse Records is reissuing this CD next month, so if you haven't heard this classic, hear it now, and then buy the damned thing!

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Demilich - Nespithe

1993, Necropolis

1.	When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water	03:43
2.	The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)	03:29
3.	Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort	03:22
4.	The Echo (Replacement)	04:27
5.	The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness...)	02:40
6.	(Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes	04:12
7.	And You'll Remain... (In Pieces in Nothingness)	03:12
8.	Erecshyrinol	03:17
9.	The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired...)	03:17
10.	The Cry	03:42
11.	Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep	03:42

More Finnish death metal, this time from the great Demilich. If you've ever read about technical death metal, this album is sure to pop up. Their only full length to be recorded, Demilich uses a lot of weird rhythms and phrasings in their riffs, as well Carcass-esque low end vocals.

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Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation

1992, Drowned

1.	Intro	01:40
2.	Black Vision	05:17
3.	Deep Blue Darkness	03:31
4.	Lacus Somniorum	01:29
5.	The Lost Memories	05:24
6.	A Dark Cloud Arises	04:06
7.	In the Misty Morning	04:47
8.	Reality isn't Disappeared	05:16
9.	Misery of the Rebirth	03:37
10.	Crown Waits the Immortal	03:45
11.	John.3.16	03:08

I've been on a real Finnish death metal kick lately, and this band has certainly been one of the best discoveries I've made more recently. The riffs here are fucking brutal, and the vocals add to that brutality. It sounds similar to Craig Pillard in his Disciples of Mockery years, actually. One of the guitarists was in Convulse, another great Finnish death metal band. This was recently reissued on vinyl, so get the mp3s if you missed it.

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