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6.5
- Band:
Cronos Compulsion - Duration: 00:23:59
- Available from: 11/07/2025
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Avantgarde Music
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The latest clove of the history of Death Metal is having the Colorado among his epicenter and precisely his most important city, Denver. Blood enchantment and spectral voice's birthplace, the metropolis on the high -end in the middle of the United States is being proven fertile ground to make puttid, cryptic, cavernous, cavernous, enchanting and in their Plumbeo and asphyxious style forms the main guidance spirit. By putting ourselves to count the young realities from the last few years from that area, we will have the picture of a very lively scene, dotted with often very young formations, prepared and with disproportionate hunger for violence and aberration.
The Cronos Compulsion are, in fact, very young and already perfectly educated on the verb of the greatest and most macilest Death Metal, grown up listening to a “Mortal Throne of Nazarene” or “Upon the Throne of Apocalypse” until nausea, without obviously out of the catalog of Immulations and Morbid Angel, barely secondary influences of their way of understanding the Death Metal. Founded in 2021, the Quartet reaches the first album – a very string, under the twenty -five minutes of duration – after having released a couple of demo, a split in 2022 and an EP, “Malicious Regression”, in 2023.
Given the aforementioned premises, it is easy to insert these guys into the unusful vein of the Old-School Death Metal-striped of Doom-spread on the record market in the last abundant decade. So much so that it is now difficult to extricate itself in the sea of outputs in the sector and this makes it improbable even for the most talented and rich in ideas. Currently, Cronos Compulsion cannot boast peculiarities such as to make them emerge instantaneously but, trying to go beyond the impression of the moment and looking at the potential inherent in this “Lawgiver”, we can say that there are solid foundations on which to build something interesting for the future.
In fact, the disc has an undoubted prowess, precisely in the sense of a healthy demonstration of strength, energy and clear ideas, which make it a puffing listening, full of adrenaline, where there is not much to be understood and investigate. You are overwhelmed and annihilated, by a sound style that, while going to take a momentum from a gurgling and threatening Death/Doom, has the pleasure of a pinch of groove and a wire of catchy. In this, the young musicians of Colorado make a way of interpreting the genre son of today's generations, with an eye to the instant sound “blow ', the need to reach the point and enter close dialogue with the listener. Thus, the insistence on average times and an almost from Mosh guitarism gives unsuspected Catchy flashes, despite a general picture where the most murky emotions and the sense of oppression are the masters.
The rigorous conclusion of each episode of the tracklist would seem to report, as well as the dry and not very articulated structures, a certain ancestry of the contemporary hardcore world. In fact, the expressive urgency seems to come from there, giving an undisputed adrenaline charge to “Lawgiver”.
The compactness of the work, however, collides with a wealth of ideas at the moment still reduced: ultimately, the different tracks tend to look enough and, despite the good technical level and the expressed intensity, the initial enthusiasm then go down, as the listening is passed. They do not collapse, we would miss it, but going on to explore the album, in addition to the qualities, the limits are also fatally discovered, which are then to be ascribed essentially to a compositional style for now rather basic and the poor ability to offer big variations from one song to another.
However, the impression is that of a project with a soul, characterized by true love for the Death Metal matter and pushed by the genuine desire to play this type of music to the fullest of their own possibilities. For now, Cronos Compulsion are a name among many, yet we would not surprise ourselves if in the future not far they could make the fateful leap in quality.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
