Necropsy - Deathprayer (2009)

   Necropsy's one and only album was a quite promising debut that unfortunately remained as a barely known and underrated record, even though it's timing was great. 
   "Deathprayer" definitely fits to the New Wave of Old School Death Metal, but it's influences are mixed. Musically it's sympathizing with brutal death, that's the most sensable in the rough modern sound. The sometimes intense speed and the drumming style suspects the same, but in general middle speed stays dominant. The guitar themes are not following the intensity of the drums, and therefore brutal speed ups also couldn't prevail for long. The mostly basic and primitive riffings keeping the music on the old school field, but still the drumms are so intense and technical as possible according to the circumstances. It sounds like to keep some sort of balance was an important aspect in the musical concept. There is also some pressure to sense while listening, like if something was about to explode, but keeps staying at the preparings. With the unfriendly, cold sound together this results an obscure feeling. The advantage of the middle speed primitive obscurity is heaviness at a level that's uncommon to hear at similar bands. Probably the band members subjective diverse influences were leading to this mixed result, but still the album is unified and portrays a very dark and rough picture to the listener. "Deathprayer" was maybe one of the best death metal acts of the year because of it's effective rotting inhuman main impression.