VICIOUS ART - FIRE FALLS AND THE WAITING WATERS - CANDLELIGHT
Aside from the alliteration in the album's title (a combination of the band's song titles), the Swedish newcomers are good at delivering solid death metal. No fancy melodies, no silly keyboard runs, no enchanting and alluring female vocals; just undefiled honest to badness death metal. The band features former Dark Funeral and Grave musicians and it shows. The compositions are seasoned, the rhythm section very tight - watch those drum beats go! - and the sound is as thick as a US Marine's skull. Be it early Gorguts, Grave or Krisiun that you like, these vicious artists have something for you. - Ali "The Metallian"