Compiles the influential grindcore forefathers’ best moments and – most importantly – all the saliva-inducing rarities that I’ve been digging for years.
Take a highly-caffeinated early Carcass, give it a gloss that rivals a spacelab, stick sharp knives in its hands, and strap rocket roller skates to its feet.
If the new tracks on Blood are any indication, expect more of the same breakneck speed, violence, and Slayer-esque chromatic death from these Polish gods.
The first two albums (reissued here on one disc) still sound as goose bump-inducing and eeriely haunting as the day they first massacred death metal fans.
The strain is starting to show as their brand of flawlessly-played Floridian death metal grind and groove through 11 tracks that barely vary from one another.
While a large makeup of The Plague’s sound is thrash metal, there’s prominent hardcore/noisecore coating their attack, and that offers up an interesting sound.
Maiden have made a career out of creating godlike classics out of simple ideas: It’s what they do best. And they do it on Dance of Death over and over again.