Deteriorot - In Ancient Beliefs (2001)

   Even though Deteriorot was formed in the golden age of death metal, it took a decade to release their full-lenght debut. Similar to other bands in the same situation, the album includes the songs they've wrote during the '90s.
   Most of their songs appeared on their early demo tapes and EP's. Therefore "In Ancient Beliefs" is an authentic old school death metal album that brought back the nostalgic feeling of the early '90s. Their style showed plenty of similarities with Incantation, so it's very  heavy, and often operates with the mix of doom-like slow downs and intense brutality. This shows the same raw aggressiveness and endlessly dark aspect, and the anti-Christian and occult lyrical topics also referring back to the masters of blasphemic insanity. Still Deteriorot's music is audience frendlier by the common ordinary old school themes, that are pulling the listener back from the chaos. They've put some short catchy melodies into their songs from time to time, so it's not merging completely into the swamp of putridness. These various changes made "In Ancient Beliefs" more diverse according to it's heavy style of death metal.