Pagainzer - Basic Instructions for Dying (2009)

   Paganizer's "Basic Instructions for Dying" is an enjoyable compilation album of unreleased songs from 2003 to 2007. Shows nothing new for the fans of the band, but still it's something interesting enough to get for their collection.
   The wide time range of the song recordings means also sound diversity, but unlike at most throwback compilations, all songs having studio quality instead of demo sound. Even though the sound isn't unified, the album definitely is, partly because the band's style didn't change since they've switched from the mixed heavy/speed/thrashy influenced style of "Deadbanger" to death metal. And the other thing is that the old school sound of Swedish death doesn't give many opportunities. It keeps staying between a quite narrow range of sound preferences to be easily identifiable. By being mean it could be said that even a compilation of various different Swedish death metal bands could be seem the same unified like if they were all one band. But that may be not so far from the reality if we think about that one of the songs meant to be a Ribspreader song, but it was kept for Paganizer. It might be also not shocking to know that it's also a side project of Rogga Johansson, the dumping master of Swedish death metal.
   The album is strongly recommended for those who never can get enough from the sound of the Swedish scene.