Not an entirely long LP, roughly 39 minutes to be accurately speaking, but wow! What Italian metal veterans Necrodeath came up with musically this time around were pretty phenomenal. These 3 sub-genres (black/death/thrash) guys have amped up their game. I had 'Defragments of Insanity' (2019) and didn't hold onto it because it didn't really resonate with me. Then I heard this and damn, I've been hooked! It seems a lot better sounding than many previous releases by the band, I suppose they said "let's go all out and see where it takes us!" That's a hypothetical, but really they are sounding awesome!

The guitars are wicked and everything here (I'm guessing) made sense to them. Upon release, it made sense to me hearing new material that's not recycled over and over like it happens with so many bands in any type of music. But these guys did one heck of a good job! The guitars don't repeat over and over, they stuck with solid riffs that sound in their own style, lead guitar outputs well executed too.

In total, 9 songs here that are quite better than "OK." Or blatantly put, all of them are simply wicked! I just heard this once and was blown away. The way they pieced together pure thrash metal riffs in their songwriting approach sounded great. Some parts slower, some many quite angry & always unashamedly aggressive. It's as if they're talking to you in the guitars. That's how profoundly I got into the music on here. And also, what really sucked me in was the originality and the absolutely uncompromising riff-writing. They pieced it together with a black metal-esque type vocal onslaught! What a great sounding recording on-top-of-it-all! Besides the music video track 'Storytellers of Lies', other tracks to check out are: the title-track 'Arimortis', 'Necrosadist' and 'Hangover'.

4 people in this band right now: Flegias, who sounds black metal-like on voice, the guitars by Pier Gonella are death/thrash sounding and the remainder of the band (GL & Peso) keep up rather well! I've heard prior releases from the band; just I've not been as interested in them until hearing this! They've been around rather a while, 1984-1985 or thereabouts!

This exceeded my expectations by a ton, how can you possibly like metal and pass this one up? Be ready for an onslaught of noise coming out of your speakers and your brain having a super hard time keeping up with it all!

Rating: 9½ (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Death8699
03/03/2025 18:25