Dormant Ordeal – Tooth and Nail

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7.5

• Band:
  Dormant Ordeal
• Duration: 00:47:17
• Available from: 04/18/2025
• Label:

• WillowTip Records

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Once at the finish of the twentieth year of activity, the Dorman Ordeal continue their artistic journey with an album – the new “Tooth and Nail” – which confirms the desire to approach the Death Metal matter according to a personal vision and free from rigid or predefined models.
A modus operandi that, due to the possibilities offered by self -production (first) and a little 'trendy' label like the selfmadegod (then), cannot be said to have favored the spread of the name of the pole band in the underground, but that in the long run, in the wake of works of the caliber of “We Had it coming” and “The Grand Scheme of Things”, he has evidently learned of his fruits.
In 2025, we find the duo of Krakow under the protective wing of WillowTip, a perfect label to push a certain type of extreme technical and modern metal, and which we hope can finally guarantee these musicians the 'jump' they deserve, allowing their proposal, always omnivorous in terms of stylistic schools from which to draw, to reach a slightly wider audience.
Specifically, as it had been in the past, the starting point is provided by Nile and (above all) decapitald of the “The negation” period/”Organic Hallucinosis”, with a pounding and syncopated guitar works to recall – similarly to the aforementioned masterpiece of 2006 – the apocalyptic climate and the cybernetic assaults of the best meshuggah; A cold, rigid and severe heart, exalted here by a bombastic and shiny production and by the test on the battery of the guest Chard Westmoreland (Brand of Sacrifice, ex Hate Eternal, ex The Faceless), which, however, in the hands of ours, finds the way to dissolve in a brat of humoral and melodic solutions, whose reference points can be traced so much in the 'post' processions. Cult of Luna as in the evocative groove of the Gojira of “From Mars to Sirius”.
Reduced to a distant echo, however, the black metal shades that crushed the previous “The Grand Scheme …” here and there, while the balance between harmony and dissonance chased by some steps can remember once again that of the ulcerates of the last career phase.
In short, the meat on the fire is again a lot, as the terms of comparison are bulky, yet the Dormant Ordeal manage to transmit to the whole a sense of innate fluidity, of spontaneous amalgam, which makes the writing of this fourth full-length, while keeping in mind certain directives, always lends its distinctive figure there.
Songs that roar without losing sight of the elegance and epicness in the background, now by placing the emphasis on the emotional aspect (just feel the excellent “solvent”, the main episode of the tracklist with its dramatic incede), now sweeping away everything under the blows of an aggression that intelligently updates the speech of the death metal of the beginning of the millennium.
Perhaps, overall, the previous work could count on some more 'hit', thanks to a more accentuated atmospheric vein, but this does not detract from this “Tooth and Nail” to play like yet another center scored by this small, talented reality.
If you have ignored the moves so far, this should be time to remedy.

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