Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
A tight, competently played old-school death-metal set, but its narrow pace and familiar riff vocabulary limit its compositional range and individual stamp.
What we noticed
- The title track sets a low, chugging mid-tempo gait; the songs that follow mostly keep it, with faster bursts rather than sustained shifts in pace.
- Across ten tracks, down-tuned guitar chugs and deep guttural vocals stay at the front, while changes in riff pattern do most of the work of separating songs.
- The record stays compact and direct, with no instrumental interlude or extended closing passage to interrupt its run of short death-metal songs.
- Composition 25% of the score
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5/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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6/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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5/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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4/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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6/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
production, performance, arrangement
whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
running order, pacing, length
Little footprint beyond its audience. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 Swarm! 2:49
- 2 Forever Dead 5:44
- 3 A Funeral for the Masses 3:08
- 4 Multiple Counts of Murder 3:40
- 5 Obsessed With Homicide 2:23
- 6 Sadistic 3:23
- 7 Cannibal Gluttony 3:33
- 8 I Killed You 3:18
- 9 Heading Towards the Butchery 2:52
- 10 A Violent Scene of Death 3:46
Reference: MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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