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Band
Desolate Shrine
Title
The Heart of the Netherworld
Type
LP/EP
Company
Dark Descent
YOR
2015
Style
Death
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2/14/2015 12:03:36 PM - Review by: David Loveless
Desolate Shrine has unleashed hell upon the masses with The Heart Of The Netherworld, their 3rd album of early 90's influenced Swedish death metal. Hailing from Finland, Desolate Shrine crank up the distortion (gotta love that HM-2 Boss pedal) and massive drum production to create over an hours worth of grim anthems, ranging from brutal death metal to ferociously slow doom metal, that will burn your soul. With 3 of the 7 tracks over the 10-minute mark, this epic blood bath of punishing ear candy is my favorite metal album of 2015 (so far). Each track, relentless from beginning to end, set a new precedence for death metal for years to come.
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2015
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