SOUL INCURSION — Eternal Darkness (review)

SOUL INCURSION — Eternal Darkness album cover EP · 2023 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Eternal Darkness" is an EP release by Finnish death metal act Soul Incursion. The EP was independently released in December 2023 and it´s the band´s second release after the November 2021 "Infernal End / Intracranial Form" single. Soul Incursion formed in 2021 in Helsinki and the members are- or have been members of other contemporary Finnish death- and thrash metal acts like Brainspoon and Grinding Fear.

The thrash metal connection is heard right away on the opening title track. It´s actually not that far from the way thrash metal oriented riffs often find their way into Carcass post-1993 music and there are other similarities too, like the melodic lead- and harmony guitar work. Soul Incursion play slightly heavier grooves though and the vocals are raw shouting/growling and generally pretty far from the raw snarling of the legendary Brits. This is though death metal with thrash metal elements, rather than thrash metal with death metal elements.

Although I find the vocals a bit anonymous and lacking some bite, Soul Incursion are otherwise a very well playing band. It´s audible these guys have been through the early maturing phase of playing in a band and writing music with their former/other projects and have now come to a phase of being more comfortable and skilled in their songwriting techniques. "Eternal Darkness" features a slightly dry but still well soundning, detailed, and powerful production job, so upon conclusion there´s a lot of promise here. If Soul Incursion could concentrate a bit more on the vocals and make them more intense and unique sounding, I´m sure they can produce something greater along the way. For now a 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating isn´t all wrong.
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