VORUM „Grim Death Awaits”

Music: Old School Death Metal
Website: www.vorumdeath.com
Duration: 20:08 minutes (8 tracks)
Country: Finland

VORUM lives just from five years but the musicians' fascinations reach earlier – to the beginning of 90 years. ” Grim Death Awaits” is their first official material, which was released by Finnish label – Woodcut Records. The upside down crosses, minimalism and the black from the cover of CD misleaded me… and I expected of archaic Black Metal. However VORUM creates the old school Death Metal – simple, brutal and crushing – inspired by old Swedish school in style of DISMEMBER or UNLEASHED – with the mad “sixteens” of guitars and the murderous blasts which are interweave with the totally heavy decelerations and climatic solos which crushed me totally…

I adore old Doom Death Metal – gloomy, relentlessly slow and simultaneously melodious. These slow accents did not dominate in this music unfortunately… I reminded myself HYPOCRISY (from “The Fourth Dimension”) and WINTER… However VORUM balanced the elements of Doom with Death Metal evenly, portraying the power of low tuned guitars, the powerful drums and the growling, which created the dark and heavy lethal atmosphere.

note: 7.5/10

Tracklist

1. They Are The Dead
2. Grim Death Awaits
3. Carved In Dead Flesh
4. Through The Throats Of Liars
5. Ritual Desecration
6. Obscure Rites
7. Cthonic
8. Eyes Burning Red

Line-up

Mikko Josefsson – Drums
Matti Jalava – Guitar
Jonatan Johansson – Vocals, Guitar