Deathspawned Destroyer - WarBloodMassacre (2005)

   Deathspawned Destroyer debuted with a quite raw, noisy and insane album, that sounded like a primitive approach of goregrind from the direction of basic old school death metal themes. The band have returned with a less bloodthirsty, doom influenced record.
   It seems like "WarBloodMassacre" they tried to compose to be more unified, and maybe that's the reason why the doom influences came. The themes are referring to the sound and simplicity of old Asphyx, but the primitive and raw impression became more evident in this case by how they tried to build up their songs. War as the main concept also telling about the strong influence of Asphyx. The album includes catchy themes too on the side of noisy basic riffings, but sometimes the the selection of repetitively played parts didn't work out well, and hardly fitting together with the rest of the songs. This reminds to how some older German death metal bands tried to experiment to create something unusual, and how that was leading to something weird. The main feeling is similar to Apophis: common slow downs and involved simple melodies to create some contrast with the heavy sound and deep growling/animalistic vocal style. It's not completely clear how much  the band was determined to turn into death/doom, or it was more like some spontaneous experiment, but the results are interesting.