NECROMANCIA are one of the very few cases, which is for me in some kind of foggy zone of bands which I don’t like really, but which are way too good to be bad. Principally Check Mate should be an album for me, if I look just at the elements they use. The CD is very thrashy and combines elements from the Sepultura Roots era (without Soulfly elements) and new (but not totally new) Metallica. This combination results in very heavy riffs und a lot of hints to Bay Area stuff, but it doesn’t strike me right in the middle, when I hear the songs. By the way, the guys are certainly NOT bad in matters of songwriting or in technical matters, but I miss the specific point in NECROMANCIA, which urges me forward to hear the songs again and again. The cover version of Overkill proves my opinion for myself. They play the song very well, but the original strikes me a lot more than this version here. But Thrash fans can certainly get friends with Check Mate, because the stuff I said here is a very subjective opinion from me. Who likes a band which sounds in between new Sepultura and Metallica, should listen to Check Mate in the store to get an own opinion.