DECOLLATION – Cursed Lands LP

Description

A weird one this. This was originally released as an EP on CD only in 1992, but as a record cut at Sunlight Studios it doesn’t quite have that Swe-death sound that we’re all accustomed too. There are certainly elements, but this record shows a near-schizophrenic amalgamation of styles, with black metal-ish termelo picking, death metal riffing, classic metal stylistics and the odd gutteral vocal. It’s maybe not avante-garde in the way that say, Pan-Thy-Monium were, but it’s bizarre enough to be of interest to anyone into extreme music which is a little left-of-centre, and before genre boundaries were so rigid and restrictively boring as they are today. Recommended. On red vinyl