Carnage Pit (FIN) - Ritual (2010)

Country: Finland
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:

1. Dogmatic Bestiality 04:26
2. Swarm of Maggots 03:30
3. Ritual 05:03
4. Dead Legions of Zaphon 02:32
5. Gore-Soaked Whore 05:41
6. Scorned by Messiah 07:59

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My constant struggle to dig out good material in the underground has finally been rewarded again. I just stumbled upon the Ritual EP by a Finnish outfit called Carnage Pit.
First, take a look at the lenght of this release. That's right almost 30 minutes for an EP and every minute is worth it (and no samples, that go on your nerves). Too much bands throw out a 20 minute shit release and call it a full-lenght. Fuck that.
The song-writing is interesting, dynamic and sounds more mature than most of the debut releases of other bands. Intense, technical, grindy and brutal material. I think it’s a drum machine at work there, but the overall impression doesn’t suffer from this. The vocals are a bastard between Defloration (Ger) and maybe Vomitory (Swe), but definitely more on the Death Metal side. I hear so many great parts in the song structures, brilliantly executed technical parts, high speed blasting parts, grindy parts, Nile like parts at some instances (absolutely love that, check out Ritual and Scorned by Messiah and listen closely). Great mixture.The guitar work is excellent and very technical. I love it. The solo work is amazing and absolutely entertaining. The thick and deep as fuck bass sounds through a lot (in the middle of Ritual it’s just amazingly done), which I absolutely like. I like how these guys mix a lot of good elements in Death Metal and Grindcore together, it just sounds vital and authentic. These guys put a lot of thought and passion into this EP and it shows. Very well done guys!

Aggressive, fast, grindy, technical, harmonic, brutal. This great release catched me off guard.

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