Album Rating: 4.5
This should have the same average as Cause of Death, compared to the prior album this one is far more consistent with its intensity throughout the whole album, no tension lost and each song is its own while sounding the same as the rest; that is how an album is made - you take an idea and spread it out while not losing its core, something CoD did wrong despite the continuity and fading of tracks together being present, because the album started with 3 of the best Obituary songs and then fell of inconsistently with songs i barely remember the name of. You can't make an album with Body Bag and Chopped In Half together with Dying and Turned Inside Out, it is random and sloppy, those songs could be put on Slowly We Rot yet they merged them into an incomplete album saved by its 5/5 hit songs.
The End Complete is different, one song ends and another starts with the same extreme punch, nothing to lose and waste, straight into it with some of the best intro riffs, each songs has its hook and often individual highs different from the other tracks, e.g.;
How does someone listen to Dead Silence, with some of the heaviest riffs ever flowing the mos unique way into a solos and not be shocked by this album, because the rest of the songs have a similar structure, straight up death metal with no unnecessary atmospheric characteristics.
The bass break at 1:12 in Corrosive going into the riff is again, definition of “heavy” and a showcase of how are heavy riffs done, so they don't enter as stale and unoriginal.
In The End of Life, best death metal hook ever
The drop or breakdown or whatever it is in Sickness is perfected death metal
I could go on, this album isn't stale, but extremely consistent, magnus opus of Obituary' discography and a potential “classic”
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