Trying to sound a bit different? Okay, but you're doing it totally wrong, fellas! I mean, this debut album from Mausoleum sounds like it was playing in the next room, and the door's been tightly shut! I think this album carries shittiest production job I've heard, ever. If it was produced at all... It's bad when you can't hear the drums properly, innit?!

Mausoleum play "zombie cult death metal", which sound similar to Autopsy (this even features Autopsy cover 'Destined to Fester') and that sort of ugly fuckers, mainly stuff from the 1980s US death metal explosion era. Musicwise, this is as fresh as zombie's breath in the morning, but it's all well done. That's no surprise when there's Incantation members included in the terror crew. Mausoleum's eerie brutality varies between blast parts and doomy dirges of death. Guitar solos are straight from 1980s. Songs feature same old samples from classic zombie flicks, of course. Lyrics are, surprise surprise, about zombies, and also influenced by movies featuring these living deads. In Razorback Records fashion, cover artwork is mainly great, especially comic strip drawings in lyrics section.

'Cadaveric Displays of Ghoulish Ghastliness' is packed with ugly death metal in 1980s vein, but with totally shite sound. So, I'm gonna pass this one.

Rating: 4- (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Lane
01/13/2008 10:00