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Stinking Death

Sweden Country of Origin: Sweden

Stinking Death
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Type: Full-Length
Release Date: January 24th, 2025
Label: Independent
Genre: Death
1. Choke On The Cross
2. Coffin Breath
3. True Death
4. A Grave Ablaze
5. Vile Impalement
6. Necromantic Breeding
7. Funeral Vomit
8. Deflesh The Dead
9. Spew
10. Graveyard Torment


Review by Michael on January 18, 2025.

Swedish death metal is probably one of the best forms of death metal. The only problem is that there aren't too many bands from Sweden who offer some new stuff the last couple of years. Lik? Nope. Dismember? That would be great – I've heard they're writing some new stuff but I guess this is a story like the new King Diamond. Entombed are (according to metal-archives) still active but it's doubtful that they will ever release some new stuff.

So there are just a few ones left that spit out more or less regular new albums like Entrails or Carnal Savagery. And sometimes you get a nice surprise from bands you haven't heard of for a couple of years like Disrupted who continue their "death"-row after five years.

The predecessor to Stinking Death which was called Pure Death was a pretty rough and unpleasant album with many harsh and sometimes more or less unmelodic songs, but the Swedes have created a more melodic album this time. Okay, melodic when it comes to death metal.

Kicking off with a very ferocious track called "Choke On The Cross" you might feel some kind of throwback to Dismembers amazing debut "Like An Everflowing Stream". Sometimes there is also some more death n'roll stuff to find like Entombed did on "Wolverine Blues" and the vocals are pretty sore and rough and gives the song (and the other ones) a slight rotting, stinking flair.

And just like every death metal band that claims to be something they have here and there some more decaying parts that crawl down your spine like maggots that eat you. "Funeral Vomit" is such a sinister, creepy song with a very slow intro and here a lot reeks of Autopsy. Again the vocals match very well to this morbid song, every single line is puked out and really sounds like somebody is vomiting.

The guitars are sawing as fuck and the drums are pummeling throughout the whole ten songs and in comparison to Pure Death the production turned out much clearer and straight forward. The album as a whole has turned out to be more accessible than the 2020 one which wasn't bad at all.

Of course the quartet doesn't offer anything new to the scene but what is to state is that they wrote some really cool songs without any flaws. This is old school as fuck and if you like the tradition HM-2 sound, d-beat and orthodox Swedish death metal, this is the first death metal feast for you. So mark the 25th of January in your diary with a dried maggot which you might put between the pages – you won't be disappointed from Stinking Death. This is stinking, pure and morbid death, just to put that trilogy into one sentence!

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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