DEMONICAL celebrate Old School Death Metal with tons of heavy grooves, extremely lowered guitars and sepulchral growls. The musicians integrate some harmonious, partly angelic melodies into this diabolical mixture in a sentimental way and serve some excellent choruses as icing on the cake. As a result, the slaughtering plate lover can enjoy the hard yet catchy hit Towards Greater Darkness, which lets me click my tongue and crack my neck vertebrae, because of the Amon Amarth-like hymnic approach.
Trailing bars bring variety into the game and attach additional power to the lumbering blast beats during the direct track Sung To Possess, before Välkommen Undergång leaves clear traces in the death metal infected cerebellum through the Swedish lyrics, sawing and stomping riffs and the chorus with several voices. After that, the horde pops a simple knitted song around our ears again, but at the Torture Parade, the guys allow melodic subtleties on the guitar in the background anew. I like DEMONICAL better when they go more epic. In the case of the piece From Nothing, we trip over a revelatory introduction, sublime melodies and medium-fast riffing. A crowning chorus as well as an extended solo is bending around the corner - I raise my fists and bow my head!
In the course of Death Unfaithful, DEMONICAL finally find the right balance of simple structures and easy-to-grasp catchiness, so that Chaos Manifesto brings a lot of advantages in the tension field of compact conciseness and hymnal elegance with a lot of penetrating power as well as damn strong refrains.