Coldblood - Chronology of Satanic Events (2013)

   Coldblood was one of the many bands who have been around since a quite long while more or less silently. After a few demo records they've finally debuted with a promising full-length album "Under the Blade I Die" in 2007. After a compilation, that collected their works during the past decades, their return with "Chronology of Satanic Events" was way more impressive than how it could have been expected.

   An experienced band could be heard on the record with well practiced themes, great song compositions, and overwhelming intensity. On the side of the band's evident engagement to old school death metal, plenty of modern features showed up, and most in the song structures. Some sound effects and the assistance of a second backing vocal style also could be sorted to the modern category. But the diverse themes and skull crushing beats introducing old school death metal at its best. The main vocal style might sound a bit unusual, but its dummy primitive impression fits well to the aggressive and vile blasphemic, anti-Christian tone of the album. Analogy with Deicide might be evident, but Coldblood created something way more enjoyable with better themes. It's like a totally devastating, unstoppable wave, and by not turning monotonous, always can find a way to transmit it's hateful message effectively. Though the album is barely longer than 35 minutes, it's pretty capable to introduce a whole image, and despite its hard rawness, thanks to the diverse intensity it's not so difficult to go into as it might first seem like. The fast brutality leads the listener fast forward on the well hoped path of Christian apocalypse. An excellent record highly recommended for the fans of the genre!