Excruciation are a band from Switzerland that has been around for more than 30 years and on this recording plays a mixture of doom, death and thrash metal with some elements of black metal, crustcore and 80's era post punk and this is a review of their 2019 compilation album [E]met" which was released by Auric Records.
Drum beats start off the album before adding in some slow, dark and heavy doom metal riffs along with the riffs also adding in some melodies. Vocals are mostly mid 80's to early 90's era death metal growls and all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
When the music speeds up a decent amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard while one track also introduces clean playing onto the recording. Elements of thrash and first wave black metal can also be heard quite a bit throughout the recording along with one song also introducing clean vocals onto the album.
The album also brings in covers from The Undisputed Truth, Kiss and Mercyful Fate which also sound a lot more heavier than the original versions.At times the vocals also add in more of an aggressive yet semi melodic style as well as the solos and leads also adding in a great amount of melody.
Elements of crustcore and post punk can also be heard quite a bit throughout the compilation along with the music also having its atmospheric moments and the songs also add in a decent mixture of both slow and mid tempo parts as well as some clean vocals also being used briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover humanity and human emotion themes.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding collection from Excruciation and if you are a fan of doom, death, black, thrash metal and crsutcore, you should check out this compilation. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Haunted" "Libya 1942" "Dignitas (Magick Ritual)" and "Kissing Your Life Goodbye". 8 out of 10.
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