The debut full-length album from Finland’s Cryptic Hatred sees the newcomers transgressing conventional boundaries of aural revulsion, digging the grave of mid-90s death metal and bending its corpse towards more contemporary malformations. From the first notes of “Into the Depths” to the last gasp of “Eternal Horror,” the band exhibit an unyielding confidence and precision which belies their emerging status. Each track moves with tank-like ferocity, unleashing driving hooks distilled from death metal’s classic period, yet unpretentiously reimagines and re-forges them in the fires of youth. The future is here and it is dark, ugly and vile…
Listen: https://cryptichatred.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-sickness