“Ascend to Chaos” comes with a release date for 2011, but the music reeks heavily of the primordial days of European death-metal, in particular bands like Demilich, Adramelech and Abhorrence. It also stands perfectly alongside the recent works of fellow countrymen Claws and Hooded Menace, perhaps Gorephilia puts a bit more focus on rabid and vicious tempos than slow and dragging ones.
Revelling in bowel-trembling low end riffs, deep and undecipherable growls and no-frills rhythms, the album pays a serious homage to old-school death-metal.
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