Skeletal Remains: Beyond The Flesh

This album just goes to show, size doesn't always matter. For a relativity small band such as Skeletal Remains, they have made a city leveling album. This albums sound is enormous. In fact Beyond The Flesh is so massive it could quite easily use the Eiffel tower as a toothpick.

With the thousands of Death-Metal bands in the world, you can sometimes wonder, "Will the new blood bands really make any impact?" or "Can there actually be any new significant Death-Metal albums?" Well Beyond The Flesh is guaranteed to quash those fears. This album may not sell as many copies as a new Slayer album would, or even a new Necrowretch album (Go check them out), but its a strong and promising start for a young and exciting band.

The instrumentals are superb and perfectly presented by the albums surprisingly good production quality. Musically the album carries a strong sound, similar to bands such as Gorguts or early Morbid Angel. The riffs are mountainous and thunderous, just like all good Death-Metal riffs should be. The drums merge with those riffs to generate the essential headbanging rhythm. To give you a better idea of it's sound, listen to the brilliant "Homicidal pulchritude"or "Extirpated Vitality".

Upon hearing the album, you will wonder how such monstrous tunes are not common knowledge in the Metal community. You will question why Skeletal Remains' Beyond The Flesh isn't on every Metal-Heads Ipod.

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