Cabal – Everything Rots

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7.5

• Band:
  Cabal
• Duration: 00:41:12
• Available from: 21/03/2025
• Label:

• Nuclear blast

The Deathcore enjoys excellent health, and in the old continent there are very solid realities to act as a standard bearer, among which we can mention Distant (Holland), Paleface (Switzerland), Mental Cruelty (Germany), Ingested (United Kingdom) and our Defamed. Can we also include the cabal, from Denmark? The quintet did well in the 2020 “Drag Me Down” debut, then confirming expectations in the good “Magnum Interitus”, which sharpened the band's sound by reducing the 'Blacken' influences.
The group's third album is called “Everything Rots” and comes out for Nuclear Blast, carrying out the violent formula of training, which leverages the classic sound of the deathcore of 2000 in a deliberate way, bringing it to the extreme with a sound that manages to be both fierce and visceral, based on brutality and impact – as we can experiment on the skin in the “Redemption Denied” opner – Calculated thanks to the industrial influences – of which the title track is excellent example. While eliminating the references to black metal almost completely, you remain unquestionably in extreme territory, without any concession to melody, but with a versatility that allows you to explore different shades in the hardcore trends of “Unveiled”, together with Matthi dei Nasty, in the modern 'bounce' of “Still Cursed”, which hosts the Ten56. Finally also in the electronic output surgery surgically implanted “Snake Toungue”. It was not enough, for the coup de grace, the Fabräk arrive at the end for a risky but undoubtedly fun rap/deathcore crossover.
Despite the variations on the theme, the sound of the disc remains on fire and compact, and the frequent and creative use of the guests (Joel Holsqvist of the Aviana and Alan Grnja of the Distant also appear in the list) is a bonus that stratifies and enriching a collection of traces without weak points, which will undoubtedly satisfy the hungry of Deathcore without using those exaggerations that, at a certain point, seemed to be a certain point. necessary to emerge. Returning to the initial question we can certainly include the cabal on the list of names that put the European Deathcore on the map. Other than rot.

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