I've been jamming a bunch of Fallujah's new album The Flesh Prevails this week, and I can already tell that this one's going to end up on some best of 2014 lists in a few months' time.
The Flesh Prevails is many things, but above all it's big and heavy. There's loads of atmosphere, there's good lead work, there's a fair helping of technicality, but first and foremost this is an album of pummeling death metal. Blast beats and accompanying trem picking and/or chuggity chugging come and go with seemingly spastic irregularity and almost inhuman precision. When you mix it all together it makes for some beautiful brutality.
So maybe it's with a bit of good cause that Fallujah continue to be interwebz metal darlings. Have a listen to album opener "Starlit Path" for a taste of what all the fuss is about, and a confirmation that Fallujah can most definitely bring the heavy.
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