{"id":90968,"date":"2021-09-10T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=90968"},"modified":"2021-09-27T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:47:10","slug":"album-review-centenary-death-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-centenary-death-the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"CENTENARY – Death… The Final Frontier (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s one of the more interesting extreme metal albums released this year in that this one combines an aggressive Swedish-style of death metal musically, but with a thrashy, rasping vocal attack.<\/p>\n

Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Centenary have been around since 2014, the current line-up consists of Stewart St. Cummings (lead vocals), Mike Bradley (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), Matt Cunningham (lead guitar), Jim Albrecht (bass), and newest recruit, Adam Davey (drums) who joined the fray in 2019.<\/p>\n

Centenary are on their second full-length release after a demo and an EP, but this one is the first to really grab my attention. The band\u2019s 2019 full-length debut Into The Graveless Beyond<\/em> was a decent ride, but Death… The Final Frontier<\/em> takes things up a notch.<\/p>\n

The band offers up ten tracks beginning with \u2018Entangled In Entrails\u2019 and the variety within the death metal framework is immediately apparent. While the guitar tone suggests that classic Swedish buzzsaw aggression \u2013 particularly when the band slows down \u2013 the opening strains are more of a death \/ thrash madness with snappy vocal rasps, but the more guttural, chesty growls soon take over.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an extremely catchy track and full of aggression, but the dual vocal attack really does the album favours. So just when you think a dirty, slow, grinding track such as \u2018Liquefied Rot\u2019 may be your standard Entombed \/ Carnage \/ Dismember worship, we get a nasty injection of speed and those sneering vocal traits which really do bring an alternative attack to the table.<\/p>\n

\u2018Strangled By The Night\u2019 is a stylish chuggernaut boasting mouldy death metal aesthetics and slower, doomier traits, while another standout tune is the infectious ripping of \u2018Malicious Symbiosis\u2019; a frothing, scathing punked-up thrash assault.<\/p>\n

Other tracks of note \u2013 although all are solid \u2013 are closer \u2018Slaves From The Grave\u2019 with its cool little film sample dialogue and that fuzzed beginning daubed in melancholy. Meanwhile, \u2018Remote Manipulation\u2019 gnashes like a chainsaw tearing into flesh and spitting blood \u2018n\u2019 rust.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, \u2018The Laughing Death\u2019 hints at a black metal dissonance especially with that icy guitar sound and squawking vocal delivery, while \u2018Ceaseless Astral Dirge\u2019 chomps, grinds and brings the percussive talents of Adam Davey to the fore as he clanks to the bludgeoning bass.<\/p>\n

If you like a sturdy, chugging Swedish death metal back bone with dashings of diversity on top, then you can\u2019t go wrong with this infectious and snappy sophomore from one of Detroit\u2019s finest acts.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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