Pathogen - Lust of Evil (2013)

   Pathogen debuted in 2008 with a stunning and unified full-length release "Blasphemous Communion". Various influences could be sensed on the album from Slayer through Morbid Angel to Autopsy throughout their themes and tempo switches. These have been pretty well composed, therefore these references might be not evident for the listener at first hearing.

   The band did a quite good job in creating their own style that occasionally also building from even more classic (heavy metal and hard rock) references. These could be mainly discovered in their complex solos. 'Lust of Evil" basically came out as a demo, and in 2013 it had a remastered release with a few extra songs as a compilation. Since the debut Pathogen shortly became a well practiced band, and seemingly they realized the possibilities for diversity that came by their influences in the very beginning, and they applied them with ease. In case of extended song lengths the compositions are pretty good too, it's thrash influenced old school death metal at its best, monotony simply never occurs. In general pretty basic thrash influenced riffs are dominant on the album, but the frequent theme and tempo switches, noisy, short and complex solos spicing them up over and over again, making the record very enjoyable and a potential favorite for the fans of old school death metal.