Surgery – Living Dead
Surgery – Living Dead
Darker Than Darkness Records
Release Date: 26/10/2023
Running Time: 29:30
Review by Metalphysicist
8/10
Slovakia band based Surgery have been around for almost 3 decades, counting with a couple of albums released and endless line up changes in the process and now with a whole new lineup, except from Road Body who is the remained founder member. They released their new album “Living Dead”, a brutal Groove/Deathcore album delivered by a band that comes from an atypical country for heavy music, as far as I am concerned.
The musical style that Surgery have chosen to adopt has nothing to do with any Slovakians culture – well, maybe an extra-shot of angriness on the guttural vocal lines that are sung by a non-English born singer. I don’t listen to that kind of Metal on my daily playlists because I feel like most of these songs look like the same for me, which gets me a little bored because I am not that musical technic kind of guy to chat about metal music.
One song only hooks me when it has something out-off the wall to surprise my fifty old Heavy Metal ears. Don’t get me wrong, I love to listen to new bands and all contemporary Heavy Metal subgenres but, as I said before, that kind of Metal that is composed under precision patterns, time clicks and stuff like that doesn’t connect with me at all.
Sure, “Living Dead” is a very well composed album, the recording sounds great and Surgery has a real professional line up to handle the almost staccato tempo songs. This gets clear on such songs as ‘Zombie Influence’ and ‘A Day to Die’.
For my gratitude the song ‘Intruders’ brings something unexpected to the mixture as they introduce Thrash Metal pedals to the song’s usual pattern. Especially on the song ‘Violence’ where there is a bridge to the solo that sounds almost like Metallica on ‘Creeping Death’ theme.
Anyway, in general “Living Dead” is a good record that’s worth a listen to for guys that are really into that kind of music, executed with precision and the unstoppable guttural singing.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Zombie Influence
02. Living Dead
03. A Day to Die
04. Terror at Night
05. Death in You
06. Last Chance
07. Intruders
08. Violence
LINE – UP:
Tomáš Hudáč – vocals
Radoslav Body – guitar
Róbert Hanečák – bass
Peter Husák – drums
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