Burial Invocation - Rituals of the Grotesque (2010)

   If it's about Turkey, metal is definitely not amongst the first things that might come into somone's mind at first. Still, similar to other countries where the metal scene was kind of late formed, and therefore lacked any presence in the period when genres were developed in the main scene; for a start plenty of brutal death bands showed up in Turkey mainly with technical and progressive orientation.

   That's another reason why the appearence of Burial Invocation was extraordinary with their definitely old school death metal touch. The primitieve, dirty and rude tone of "Rituals of the Grotesque" catched the feeling of the old school style at it's best, and represents it's most enjoyable form. Their music shows the most similarities with the Finnish style of death by the combination of rough sound, deep growls and diverse, melodic leading themes. But the common heavy slow downs also suspecting some death/doom influences. Even if they might not had direct effect on their music, there is some analogy to find with bands like Ascended and Hooded Menace. Similarly impressing debuts are rare to hear not only in areas from where the appearence of this style if quite unexpected, but in general. But their timing was great, Burial Invocation came with the flow of the New Wave of Old School Death Metal as one of it's most promising bands.