Obliteration - Black Death Horizon (2013)

   Until the third full-length Obliteration record it's got clear that the band didn't intend to create too homogenous discography. There are some exciting changes to discover on each album, and those are of course committed inside the borders of old school death metal. By "Black Death Horizon" the band kept showing that those borders aren't so strict as they're believed so.

   Similar to "Nekropsalms", the third album also gives a nice rotting taste of old Autopsy, and this very familiar, slow and endlessly sick feeling hits hard already at the beginning. However, "Black Death Horizon" isn't so complex like the previous album was. And the same time to express overwhelming sickness isn't in the main focus anymore. The song compositions are still great, and to operate with partly taken themes and to insert them into another perspective definitely needs skills. Maybe this method might sound familiar by thinking about bands like Skeletal Remains or Gruesome, but in fact those are bands who are perfect examples of how to not do the whole thing. Taking exact themes from another band and putting them together randomly over and over again like if it was some AI mix, is kinda far from writing own themes strongly influenced by another band, and pasting them into a new perspective each time. Despite the less complex song structures, on "Black Death Horizon" the band's own way of self-expression also had higher importance. Therefore it might be easier to go into, but to describe the exact motivations in details by grabbing the essence of the album isn't an easy task. This means the complexity also wasn't gone completely, and similar to "Nekropsalms", "Black Death Horizon" is also an album worth to listen to many-many times. Another masterpiece by Obliteration.