Decrepitaph - Profane Doctrines Unburied (2011)

   It's always enjoyable to follow the musical journey of a band and to note when they're reaching the top of their productivity. After "Profane Doctrines Unburied" not much was heard about Decrepitaph except a compilation of preiously unreleased or split album songs. The band seemed to be gone after their most excellent release.
  It's important to note this only because it's the exact opposite of the more usual tendency, when old school death metal musicians after loosing real inspiration since decades, keep running their bands whether it makes sense or not, or forming other ones that aren't different from their previous bands, and under new names they're integrating themselves into the endless continuity of retired self-repeating. Decrepitaph had quite genuine approach that was the mix of endlessly heavy, putrid sound, ominous, demoralizing melodic leads and intense old school rawness. There is an analogy how their albums were composed, like a strict recipe, that they felt committed to comply to. Each album had it's brutally devastating start, it's  melancholic song, it's too repetitive themed song, and it's final, best composed and most diverse song, in which they tried to line up all the main features of the album in the most effective way. Similarly strict scheme is common to find mosty at Northern and Japanese death metal bands, and that always suspects some deep analysis and accuracy about building up the main concept and also at songwriting. "Profane Doctrines Unburied" showed progression all-round compared to the previous Decrepitaph album, therefore it sounds even more exaggerated and it's also better composed. By that it reached a level that made the album not only Decrepitaph's best one, but also a remarkable masterpiece of the genre.