Enthrallment-Eugenic Wombs (2015)

Enthrallment-Eugenic Wombs (2015)

By: Ghost Writer

What a curious coincidence that Bulgaria, brilliant, bombastic, brutal, bestial and bass are all words starting with the letter "B", and those are words that immediately come to my mind while listening to the furiously great Enthrallment, coming from Bulgaria, in Eastern Europe, a band whose last year bombastic album named Eugenic Wombs is definitely one of the best death metal albums I had the chance of listening to in 2015, a totally brutal performance by a band I knew little about at the time, but that is now constantly slamming on my MP3 player.

I must confess that I'm an enthusiastic follower of death metal, I grew up listening to bands like Morbid Angel, Death, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse and Decide, all of them legendary acts within the genre, which stagnated after the arrival first of grunge and then of nu metal, but it has resurfaced in a wonderful way lately, and not precisely on American soil, mainly in Florida, no a days, the great thing about death metal is that globalization has done wonders for the genre, now you can expect not listen to amazing death metal bands from Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Australia or Russia, and the results are bestial music appearing in many different shapes.

If you ask me for a proper description of Enthrallment, I don't have an exact one, at times they remind me of something of a cross between Deicide's Legion and Morbid Angel's Altar of Madness, and a little bit of Cannibal Corpse and Australia's Portal, the result is band with an asphyxiating sound, dense and macabre with superb instrumental playing and a prominent bass performance that's both technical impressive and horror movie is inducing, while guitars are another impressive feature here, all time dissonant, self contained and remember reminding me of Bill Steer's nausea inducing inside out solos.

From the beginning, opener Deserved Fears us a full declaration of war, with the band charging furious, supported greatly by a powerfully drum work, a constant in most of the songs, Wagnerian sense of doom and terror applied to other tunes like Few Are Those Who Find It, and of course, the omnipresence of a bass that sounds as if it was a menacing reptilian creature coming out of the shadows, showing this great dexterity in the playing and making a perfect interplay with the dissonant, odd sounding guitars, making Eugenic Wombs a most listen and definitely one of my favorite brutal death metal records from last year.