Album Review: Insurrection – Extraction (Galy Records)

Extraction is the fourth album from Eastern Canadian brutal heavy metal band, Insurrection. It will be released on October 6th via Galy Records.

Playing an exciting blend of death & tech metal, Insurrection are masters of dishing out an aural onslaught, one that comes in both French & English. With a serious amount of meat to the bones of the guttural vocals & complex riffs, System Failure opens the album with a bang.

Rhythmically challenging but with plenty of hooks to keep things interesting & not sounding contrived.

The album motors along in a blast of white metal fire with Onward to Extinction, Pull the Plug & The Eulogy of Hatred being powerful slabs of metal that slay with their ferocious & catchy riffs. There is no give here, no let-up from the intensity of the technical death metal on show here.

Not that you’d want a break anyway. Extraction is filled with hooks that dig away at the brain matter threatening to leave you a dribbling wreck. Le pesant d’or ups the tempo to the point of insanity. The venomous vocals spat out at a blazing pace alongside the heavy groove.

The penultimate track, Assassins really lays the exciting guitar groove on thickly. Mixing perfectly with the complex sounding riffs & shattering drum beats. It’s the perfect precursor to the chugging finale, Data Extracted…End Transmission. A head-banging delight that caps off an impressive showing from Insurrection. They make tech/groove death metal seem so easy.

Insurrection – Extraction Full Track Listing:

1. System Failure
2. Onward to Extinction
3. Pull the Plug
4. Le prix à payer
5. The Eulogy of Hatred
6. Parasite
7. Le pesant d’or
8. Misère noire
9. Assassins
10. Data Extracted…End Transmission

You can order the album & earlier work via Bandcamp, Galy Records store & Apple Music below. You can find out more about the band & keep up to date with news via their website, Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. Check out some of their music now over on YouTube & Soundcloud.