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ERADICATE
Demise Towards The Dasein (2022)

Here is a new death metal treat for you all, this being the debut release from Turkish four-piece Eradicate. The band consists Inhuman (vocals and rhythm guitar), Nekrophage (lead guitar), Sarzu (bass) and The Han (drums).

The combo has only been around for a year, but this is an impressive four song outing that kicks off with a short intro entitled ‘Maddening Darkness Of Obscurity’ which leads us into the gnashing mesh of ‘Whispering Paranoia’.

There’s some seriously heavy mechanics on display here as the band chugs with a density and menace quite symbolic of today’s crushing, consuming and suffocating death metal sound. Eradicate brings a claustrophobic doominess to proceedings as the vocal coughs work in tandem with the equally bassy dynamics.

Keeping in with the current gloomy, cavernous scene ‘Whispering Paranoia’ trudges in accessible yet macabre fashion, while the percussion hammers frantically as if to manically panic its way out of the swamp around it.

The riffs exhibited here are bludgeoning to say the least, and this posse has that sickening stuffiness down to a tee as the vocals shift from hefty deep bellows to garbled pokes.

‘Involution Within The Void’ again marries those despicable morbid chugs with bursts of speed, and there’s no difference on closing cut ‘Pseuodic Liberty Of The Mind’. But like so many recent death metal acts there’s just something so refreshing about this boiling feast of dusty death metal, even as more and more bands opt for similar bouts of gloom and putridity.

Flashes of Carcass entwine with Autopsy as hefty riffs roll into fetid, steaming bass lines, while dashes of Finnish extremity are added to the mix. It’s all dark, deep and mesmerically comforting as each chugging segment unravels.

Some excellent demos have been coughed up this year and Eradicate’s offering sits among them. This is a real Turkish delight of festering, pulverising dynamics exuding organic menace.

For those of you interested, the Demise Towards The Dasein demo is available here.

Neil Arnold

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