Album Review: Cremation – Where the Blood Flows Down the Mountains (Czar of Crickets)

Cremation have stood for independent and uncompromising death metal from Switzerland for 30 years. On December 9th, 2022, Czar of Crickets will release their brand-new album, Where the Blood Flows Down the Mountains.

As old-school as they come, Cremation have been grinding this axe for a long time already and the blade is only getting sharper. The group’s new album is every bit the raging atrocity that one would hope for and expect.

Expectation that comes from consistency. Cremation may not be known well outside the underground death metal scene, but all who do, know what they do and how well they do it. You want some old school heavy head-banging death metal? Cremation has exactly what you need with Where the Blood Flows Down the Mountains.

There’s nothing complex about this eight-track release. It’s meaty and monstrous death metal. Heavy and harsh from beginning to end. Bulky riffs, scornful guttural vocals and eardrum busting percussion. A mixture that is part feral savagery, part measured ferocity and part gleeful intensity. Where the Blood Flows Down the Mountains is Cremation continuing to prove that age is just a number and the longer they’re around, the better the death metal scene is.

Of course, that comes with a price and that price is that it has little appeal to those who just don’t care for this style of music. Cremation’s Where the Blood Flows Down the Mountains isn’t going to change any minds but that’s nothing new. Fans will lap this one up hungrily.

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