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Brutal and relentless. Pallor Mortis never lets up and the band revels in it, judging from the layout of each song's composition. The Montreal-based four piece Death Metal outfit hammers their genre home with the brutal beating of the vocals, the growling instruments, and foreboding atmosphere of some song intros. The songs also have a slower tempo than some Death Metal outfits have chosen to go with in their songwriting for the past few years, Death Metal acts have been edging closer and closer to shred I've noticed over the last decade; but Pallor Mortis has opted for the slower tempo, though nonetheless heavy with a deep sense of brutality in the instrumentals. Aside from the genre identifiers and aural assault that Pallor Mortis lays down, the band has composed solid metal here without any cross pollination of styles; including no use of dub step drops that have infected almost all subgenres of metal for the last three or so years. I like that.


I'm all for experimentation in all genres of music, particularly rock and metal as this reviewer's personal tastes lie there; but it's cool when a band goes balls to the wall in their own preferred genre and keeps the dub step out. Letting the vocals and instruments do the talking without the glorified synth effects.