ATOMWINTER – Catacombs

After the tranquil Intro, ATOMWINTER throws up the clattering grooving machine and effectively lumber everything into the ground with the title track Catacombs. Straight out and a little bit dull, but uncommonly brute, the piece rolls along at an upscale tempo, takes the ride out briefly so that the listener can catch his breath for a moment before the inferno breaks off again. Deep growls, a lush sound and catchy riffs make the heart of the old-school lover beat faster.
But not only full throttle and purely in the middle of the intestines works splendidly, the musicians reach the neck muscles also with rattling mid-tempo and dragging rhythms; in the case of Sadistic Intent this tactic is used towards the end when deadly slowly erasing beats leave burned earth. Fortunately, the men let the reins of Ancient Rites slip for a short time - albeit only in terms of speed - and thus give the lightning-fast eruptions even more penetrating power.
The mixture of hacking speed and violent grindstone rhythms whirls up a lot of dust and turns Gathering Of The Undead into an acoustic wrecking ball, before Carved In Stone gets to the point with hellish blasts directly and uncompromisingly without any straight lines or variations. In course of Necromancer the chorus stays in the ear, Morbid Lies animates the neck muscles with cool headbanger rhythms and lets the propeller rotate. The concluding Funeral Of Flesh sounds really nasty, like a mangy bastard, fed with Swedish primeval soup and soaked in Disbelief's despair.
ATOMWINTER do not care about technical delicacies or experiments, they rather convince with a lot of blasts and skillfully sprinkled, tough thunderous slowness to pay homage to the old school!