Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds (2014)

   Corpsessed debuted with a pretty impressive EP "The Dagger & the Chalice" that by heaviness and obscureness could be comparable to bands like Incantation, Disma, Slugathor or Desecresy. By their first full-length album they continued this line and extended these features to abysmal depths, and not only because of its title.
    Similar to the noisiest, most brutal and most obscure Finnish death metal bands, at first their music might seem hard to go into, but by giving the chance, the darkness that's flooding from their music proves to be a force irresistible enough to easily carry the listener away. This is the force that excludes any slight possibility of hope or escape, swallows all light and annihilates everything on its way. The song compositions are more complex than at similar bands (therefore the comparison with Incantation and Disma), and very well made. The intensity on the album has also wider spectrum from old school hammering through extreme speed to middle speed assisted by rough blast beats and also death/doom-like slow downs. They tried to apply them balanced, and this made "Abysmal Thresholds" pretty eventful. The band seemed to be comfortable at any speed, and more importantly the theme/tempo switches completing each other, therefore it might be difficult to determine any as highlighted. The heavy slow downs are as effective as the skull crushing intensity, the nosy riffs are creating as dark atmosphere as the ominous melodic leads. The excellence of "Abysmal Thresholds" is as difficult to describe as the vile, yet unseen creatures lurking in the dark.