DENIAL Immense carnage vortex EP Review

DENIAL (Mexico) – Immense carnage vortex
EP 2008 – Blood Harvest Records
3 tracks
Rated: 10/10
DENIAL is a recent death metal band from Mexico (2006) gathering some mercenaries from the Mexican underground mafia and especially Oscar Clorio some may know from his drumwork in CENOTAPH. Like me if you enjoy the early works of CENOTAPH, the death metal by DENIAL will even go out of your expectations. Two tracks and an intro are enough to get convinced by DENIAL's deadly potential. Paying tribute to the 90's era of death metal, DENIAL is the unavoidable dark death metal invocation, truly evil sounding like their landmates of NECROCCULTUS, they prove that it's still possible to impress with simple but good riffing. This EP offers a putrid mixture of INCANTATION, old IMMOLATION with the lethal groove by ENTOMBED and the coffin's stench of GRAVE, plus the South American trademark (like some spicy food that makes you breath some fire if you will).
All the elements I'm looking for in death metal are there: killer riffs, evil and dark intents, guttural vocals, hysterical guitar solos... The vinyl sound also strenghtens the obscure vibe, but that's firstly the songwriting which is almost perfect for me, a really impressive release. DENIAL has released a full lenght on Asphyxiate Recordings so let's see if they can remain interesting on a longer record. I'll check this soon, believe me.
Contact: DENIAL – PO BOX 217 – CP 06002 MEXICO – MEXICO
BLOOD HARVEST Records – PO BOX 7092 – 20042 MALMO – SWEDEN http://www.bloodharvest.se/