First of all it's important to mention that even though the Polish scene is kind of diverse, and proved to be a musically quite active and flexible scene, the returning features (that are essential to be able to cathegorize anything) materialized only much later. The first death metal releases came out in Poland from the early '90s, but they were kind of experimental or followed the actual old school scene. Some more brutal albums have shown up too with time (like Armagedon, Vader or Monastyr), but the dominance of this style became clear only much later, from the early '00s, as more bands have formed in this style on the side of the oldies. Masachist's first full-lenght album showed analogy with other newer death metal releases, like Supreme Lord, Azarath and the late sound of Vader and Armagedon. Their style keeps staying on the borderline of old school and brutal death. Just like the mentioned bands, they also preferred clean sound and high quality production to make every sound to be heard clearly in the hope of putting brutality in focus as much as possible. In the main scene this tendency reflects the late ambitions of classical bands like Immolation, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, or Deeds of Flesh. Musically the influences of these bands could be also noted. It's not questionable if it's truelly increasing the effectiveness, but if it's about the long time enjoyability, it's not quite sure, because for the listener everything might become too repetitive and predictable. The second reason why the scene was able to take some unified form, comes from it's littleness. In the bands line-up members of Decapitated, Azarath, and Vader could be found, so they brought the same influences into Masachist too.
However it's clear from first hearing that "Death March Fury" is a well composed, high quality release, made by musicians with notable background.
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