Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre - the review
In 2008 announced reunion two metal legends with very similar genre progress during their existence. Musical evolution of Atheist and Pestilence began with thrash metal influenced with Slayer and Metallica continued with death metal which was later enriched with jazz fusion elements. The straight connection of both bands is bassist Tony Choy who played in the Pestilence already on the record Testimony of the Ancients (released in 1991) and on Atheist albums Unquestionable Presence (1991) and Elements (1993). He is nowdays in both bands. Albums Spheres (1993) and Elements are considered as the top in their career however the albums were the swansongs. I can manifest that Resurrection Macabre reflects the return to the death metal genre period in some places too similar to the songs on Testimony of the Ancients and Consuming Impulse. Engineering and production is made on very high level but on the other side some of compositions on Resurrection Macabre have deficiency of invention - especially creative and experimental material. Frontman Mameli have changed the technique of vocals which have now more deeper tone. In my opinion Darkane drummer Peter Wildoer did here the best work and Choy was in the large extent confined by Mameli. Mameli composed typical death metal where got lost all jazz fusion features except some relics in short guitar solos. Frankly, I have to confess that I awaited more from this record. Although album have some technical rhytmic structures, it has monotone and repetative character. This fact assigns Resurrection Macabre between dozens of the same death metal albums but in the recent age will find a lot of fans who like modern metal music.
Rating: 6/10
good songs: Devouring Frenzy, Horror Detox, Resurrection Macabre, Fiend
Resurrection Macabre tracklist:
1. "Devouring Frenzy" 02:54
2. "Horror Detox" 03:20
3. "Fiend" 03:29
4. "Hate Suicide" 04:18
5. "Synthetic Grotesque" 03:57
6. "Neuro Dissonance" 03:28
7. "Dehydrated II" 03:47
8. "Resurrection Macabre" 03:47
9. "Hangman" 02:52
10. "Y2H" 03:39
11. "In Sic1kness & Death" 05:00
