Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion (2009)

   Goreaphobia is also one of the late debuted old bands, and their active periods have been quite wavering too. But at least the first full-lenght album had great timing in middle of the New Wave of Old School Death Metal.
   Unlike most similar bands who had only a compilation release that collects their old demo and other short records, Goreaphobia wrote new songs after, so their return was more than some simple nostalgia. Their early style was raw, wilder and sounds like influenced by bands like Morbid Angel and Deicide, but there have been slow downs with melodies and themes that were more similar to some ancient black metal. The latest feature was kind of odd compared to other old school death metal bands. Over a decade later they picked up this line to express musical progression, and focused more on the diversity of their themes than on the harsh sound. They switched directly to black metal themes sometimes, and the main impression reminds to Necrophagia thanks to the simple but melodic switches and the sometimes narrative vocal style. Maybe the analogy with Necrophagia existed back then too, but it wasn't so showy like in this form. If it had more blackened themes, "Mortal Repulsion" would be a black/death album, but it's not so far from the border of the mentioned genres anyway. Probably if they didn't split up in the '90s and continued this line like this, we could say that the band was ahead of it's time. The albums offers excellent entertainment for the fans of old school death, and also shows an interesting way of musical progression.