Year of release: 2018
Label: Metal Blade Records
Rating: 5,8 / 10
In the near future Bagnik Zine pages will be devoted to them Fathers who traditionally give out their major autumnal new albums. I will begin with MONSTROSITY, who have been silent for 11 years. o tell you the truth, I finished listening to them soon after the release of "Spiritual Apocalypse", and since then I have never returned, although I liked the band. On the eve of "The Passage of Existence" I decided to listen to their previous records, and you know what? The impression became worse. If the first few albums are excellent samples of the classic American death metal (plus a killer cover of "Angel of Death" on "In Dark Purity"), then "Rise to Power" is already quite ambiguous, and "Spiritual Apocalypse" is completely useless. After such an album, the pause in the band's work is quite natural, but it's surprising that "The Passage of Existence" is the direct successor of this crappy record. All the shortcomings have not disappeared: the modern plastic sound, the modern twisty style of performance completely gone from the thrash roots, the piggy vocals of Mike Hrubovchak (he's much better as an artist than as vocalist), unnecessary melodies (for sure, it's Mark English is the one to blame, he did the same on new DEICIDE album). The music sounds depressingly toothless. I do not even know how you can call it Death Metal when there are bands like CUT UP or INCANTATION exist in this world - not to mention more underground formations. Of the pros, I note the really high performing skills of musicians and the finest guitar solos, which draw on half of the album. But this is not nearly enough to make "The Passage of Existence" interesting. Perhaps MONSTROSITY should have remain quiet, not trying to work in the field where they are no longer destined to find creative success.
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