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Horde Casket​-Xenopocalypse (Sevared Records​)

Steve Giddens is fucking back with his Horde Casket to give a fourth full length album entitled "Xenopocalypse" and the band have the particularity, since 10 fucking years, to have never did something bad and it continues in this way with this new release really not perfect but still fucking excellent! Horde Casket continue to spread a Brutal Death Fucking Metal including many roots from the Old Skull Death Metal but this time adding some modern elements that could be similar to what we find in Deathcore music without being deathcore but really decreasing a lot the raw and brutal fucking atmosphere of the band! "Xenopocalypse" is 11 fucking tracks including an intro/interlude/outro being all fucking good and each of them having some parts very weak and not enjoyable at all but at the final, each song still manage to be fucking addictive by including a few catchy and brutal fucking parts! Drums is fucking good on this release and despite a production a little more "modern", it sounds pretty well, guitars/bass is still offering a solid songwriting despite to have many weak and boring elements and the vocals is not very good sounding like a deathcore vocalist trying to be death metal and managing to do it without real sick fucking soul but the final result is still powerful as fuck! Horde Casket is giving a very good new album but need to be more constant about brutality and concentrating on their fucking sick and addictive riffing that is what make them fucking great! The production sounds modern but still a fucking success with a good mixing and this fucking shit really sounds like a ton of hybrid deformed fucking corpses imploding from within! More of 30 fucking minutes of good and catchy brutality having many flaws but still managing to get us addicted and the band despite to have decreased a little on the raw brutality have still offered an enjoyable fourth fucking album! Horde Casket consists of Micah Smith (Vocals), Steve Giddens (Guitars), Justin Perry (Bass), Shane Fallon (Drums) and the sickos are unleashing this imminent fucking apocalypse, not being flawless on every level, but able to give some enjoying and great fucking composition! "Xenopocalypse" is not really a memorable release but Its, I think, an essential album to all sickos around wishing to listen to some catchy and good fucking musick! Excellent Fucking Piece of Apocalyptic Brutality! 8/10