INTERMENT — Where Death Will Increase (review)

INTERMENT — Where Death Will Increase album cover Demo · 1991 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"Where Death Will Increase" is the first demo recording by Swedish death metal act Interment. The demo was independently released in February 1991. Interment formed under the Beyond monicker in 1988, but after releasing the "Birth of the Dead" demo in June 1990 the band opted to change their name to Interment. "Where Death Will Increase" features a short intro followed by three regular length tracks and it closes with a short outro.

While the "Birth of the Dead" demo features a raw, brutal, and demonic sounding death metal style with blackened touches, something else than a name change has happened between "Birth of the Dead" and "Where Death Will Increase", because Interment now sounds inherently like a Swedish death metal band. "Where Death Will Increase" was recorded at Sunlight Studio with producer Tomas Skogsberg, so that probably explains some of the changes toward a more regular old school Swedish death metal sound, but the material itself is now also strongly influenced by the artists like Entombed and Dismember...(Afflicted and more sporadically Unleashed should be mentioned too).

...and there´s nothing wrong with that, especially considering the date of release. In 1991 everyone was craving more of the same fat buzzsaw guitar tone, morbid leads (and in this case the occasional eerie keyboard notes), commanding brutal yet intelligible growling vocals, and hardcore punk influenced drumming, and that´s exactly what you get here. "Where Death Will Increase" features a powerful and well sounding production job, and the musical performances are also on a high level, so all in all it´s a high quality old school Swedish death metal release and a 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved. It´s definitely one of the better quality Swedish death metal demos from that time and it´s a bit of a mystery why Interment didn´t manage to get a recording contract during their initial run based on this release.
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