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Ten oldschoolowy urok połączony z hiperkinetyczną intensywnością współczesnego death metalu...

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Mają tempo, skurwisyny. Pamiętam, że nie tak dawno temu recenzowałem już jeden materiał tej kapeli, a tu już dostałem ponownie solidną lekcję szwedzkiego. Death metalu oczywiście.

Malfeitor bowiem pochodzi ze Szwecji i brzmi po szwedzku. Dla jednych to niby nic, ale dla mnie oznacza to ni mniej ni więcej, że oto i przede mną kilkadziesiąt mile spędzonych minut. „Dum Morior Orior” śmierdzi starym metalem, zaczerpniętym z wczesnych krążków Grave, Dismember czy Entombed. Ale to chyba oczywiste, że nagle nikt tu nie każe odkrywać Ameryki. Z drugiej strony, nie mamy tu do czynienia z młodziakami, którzy są rówieśnikami „…And Here I Die… Satisfied”, gdyż Malfeitor został założony w 1990 roku. Wówczas jeszcze na mapie istniał Związek Radziecki! Zostawmy jednak geopolitykę na boku, bo „Dum Morior Orior” dobija się, chcąc, by ktoś ich zauważył – ależ słyszymy, słyszymy te gardłowe growle i krzyki, słyszymy piłujące gitary i dudniący bas – właśnie leci „And The Sky Turned The Rage” i dosłownie czuję gniew, o którym śpiewa Malfeitor. Może i znajdą się na tym łez padole zespoły, które w równie nieoryginalny sposób łupią death metal, a przy tym podobają mi się bardziej, jednak mimo tego nie mam Malfeitor nic do zarzucenia. Taki już jestem, że death metal w old skulowym wydaniu podoba mi się i już.

Jak na debiut wydany po dwudziestu dwóch latach od powstania zespołu, Malfeitor brzmi z młodzieńczą werwą i wściekłością. Wers „I will make You fuckin’ bleed” z ostatniego numeru brzmi w zderzeniu z tą muzyką dość prawdopodobnie.

Oracle

The Malfeitor entity came into existence (supposedly) already back in 1990, but I guess this time until 1995, when the first incarnation of the band has split up, have never fruited in demo recordings, so it doesn’t really matter. When Benny Moberg started Blood Mortized in 2007 he also decided soon later to reform Malfeitor, for whatever reasons. I do must admit that the debut demo, “To Hell, Farewell”, from 2011 – which later was released on CD as a split with Birch Mountain – hasn’t impressed me that much and it was rather mediocre quality Swedish sounding death metal. Therefore I didn’t really feel like “Dum Morior Orior” would be an album that I’ll get interested in. Well, Hellthrasher Productions helped with it, by making sure that I review it, so here I am, sitting in front of the laptop and listening to those Swedish zombies at 1:15 am.

I must admit that my first impression on “Dum Morior Orior” was very mixed. At the beginning I was quite sceptic about the band and also on the first listen I really thought that this is yet another old styled Swedish death metal album, but one of very mediocre quality and basically one, which do not bring anything exciting to already very exciting scene, so I was more eager to skip it than really bother to listen to it more. But I did against that and kept on listening to “Dum Morior Orior” and I think I should be glad about that as I started to like Malfeitor more with every new listening. It’s almost weird that something like this happened, because “Dum Morior Orior” is not a demanding album and with such LPs you usually get into them immediately or not at all and then just leave them behind. Maybe it had something to do with the equipment on which I listened to Malfeitor, as at first I listened to it on quite old and shitty headphones, but later I putted the album on my big stereo system and finally Malfeitor’s music got some aggression and brutal energy which I felt was lacking at first. This is when I really discovered the potential and awesomeness of this band.

When “Conversation in Minor” kicked off with first riffs, it was like a bomb, which exploded right in your face. And next tracks, like the impressively catchy, but fast as hell “Beyond the Horrorizon” and brilliant groovy horror anthem called “To Hell, Farewell” just carried on doing the slaughter, which I welcomed with opened arms and all my knives and axes sharp and ready to massacre. Malfeitor plays some really killer and devastating tracks here and so “Dum Morior Orior” is truly a blast. Of course there may be discussions whether it’s any point to listen to yet another band like Malfeitor… because I’m not gonna lie to you. Malfeitor is not original at all and their music pretty much repeats what dozens of other bands have done earlier. There are also few new bands from the new wave of old school death metal, which I think are better than Malfeitor – I can think of Interment, Tormented, Intestinal, Entrails, Graveyard, Torture Division just to name few really. But who cares, if “Dum Morior Orior” is still so cool and skin bashing? Malfeitor has really solid songwriting, good performance, the productions is OK here also, so I can’t see any reasons why “Dum Morior Orior” should not be in the collections of all die hard death metal maniacs out there! Trust me; these are some really killer 40 minutes, which will be a real feast for enthusiasts of the Swedish style and the likes of Entombed, Grave, Torture Division, General Surgery, Facebreaker. What I like about “Dum Morior Orior” especially is that how often it is fast, how uncompromising and aggressive (sometimes even grinding) this album is, but still with many memorable and catchy parts, and that in all that blasting ferocity Malfeitor did not forget about some melodies or even doomy parts. In the end I think that “Dum Morior Orior” has everything what such musical genre as old school Swedish death metal should have. Really cool, yeah! I like it!

dismember marcin



..::TRACK-LIST::..

1. Conversation In Minor 04:35
2. Beyond The Horrorizon 03:27
3. When Last Breath Fades 03:03
4. Exile From Sanity 03:54
5. To Hell, Farrewell 03:18
6. Death, The Dead And Me 03:55
7. Rolling With Corpses 03:03
8. And The Sky Turned To Rage 03:47
9. Psychosis 03:15
10. Scenes From A Slaughterhouse 03:43
11. Sojourn Hell 05:07

Recorded at Sufficiently Studios, Stockholm and at 61 Streamway Croft of Suffering Studios, Vasteras.
Mixed and mastered at Sufficiently Studios, Stockholm.



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Vocals - Mattias Parkkila
Drums - Janne Björkenfjäll
Guitar, Bass - Benny Moberg

Vocals [Guest] - Raquel Centeno (tracks: 9), Ronnie Ripper (tracks: 7)



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