Deep underground, through vast caverns and catacombs as ancient and mankind itself, lies a pest ready to be awaken and one day unleash its terrors upon the world that cease to believe in its existence. Stories off fairytales you say, but every mind has its own way of assuming of a future terror. It could be caused by nuclear fusion, virus or plainly an enigmatic forlorn threat to be set free in one way or the other. Anyway, there is always a chance for grimness and grave endeavors to stop something greater that might be flesh eating. In the front center I present to you a pair of Mexicans that wished to revamp the disconsolate feels, sorrows and angst of old school Doom / Death Metal of the early 90s, may it be driven by European hands through early ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER, ASPHYX, AMORPHIS, PARADISE LOST or CELTIC FROST or otherwise be drowned by crookedness of early MORBID ANGEL. Distant or closer, it doesn't really matter, ZOMBIEFICATION will keep on spreading their disease, rotten sound and aching gruesomeness, just as the old blood wretched book proclaimed. "At The Caves Of Eternal", the band's number two, via Pulverised Records, is yet another swift journey into the lands of the dead, the true deadened pits where extreme Metal music once treaded unlike the modernized molested form of the genre.

In general, ZOMBIEFICATION had me convinced with what "At The Caves Of Eternal" presented. Admittedly, there is plenty of promise but less classic binding proceedings to the material itself. ZOMBIEFICATION have no shortage in identity, they have been trying to diversify two of extreme Metal's oldest genres into a single powerful unison. Being armed with a well picked sound engineer, such as Tore Stjerna, that seemed to have the right knowledge of how to produce a forbidding and bleak sounded old school like Metal album, kept their points up in my book.

Right through the music, with my admiration for melodies within classic Death Metal pieces, especially with the agonizing Doom Metal features, my following the melodies licks concluded after a few songs. The fact is that ZOMBIEFICATION overused the same slow / fast tremolo melodic lines over and over. Yeah such a sheer early PARADISE LOST and a bit of Black Metal dismalness, but after a while it lost its hold and influence. At least the sizzling solos add another facet to the lead section, which seemed to lack ideas after a few tunes. The song's characteristics leaned more to the epic end of Doom Metal with rivets of bursting Death Metal rhythms, whether fast or mid tempo inspired. Even with the energetic frenzy of most rhythms, the slow tempo rhythms had me a bit boring from time to time alongside the fact that though there was no repetition of the same riffing, sometimes I felt that several of the songs lost their context.

Actually, "Soul Collector", "Passage Of Darkness" and "The Crypt" were probably the chief songs that enthralled me with gravity of how the mixture of early Death and Doom Metal should be depicted, something that the modern acts lost with their antics. "Soul Collector" inflicted the old PARADISE LOST, ASPHYX and ENTOMBED ghastly combinations of speeding Death Metal prolonging the coming of maniacal riffing, stings of melodies, ripping grouchy vocals and ample soloing. "Passage of Darkness", a bit Sludgy with its catatonic and muckiness elements, yet a perpetual Doom Metal infested amalgamation of sickening chants of chaos, low end riffing and melodies from far beyond. "The Crypt" returns to the magical vapors of the British manifestation of gloom, crude Doom drenched with rawness of fast paced Death Metal entanglements. This one is a bit more creative with its structure and melodic perception; a true early PARADISE LOST routine is evident. To conclude, ZOMBIEFICATION is regarded as a promise to this fine fusion of opaque and dark extreme Metal chaotic syndrome. "At The Caves Of Eternal" is a nice release, latent to be better, but I would really want a bit more, and without losing any bit of the song for out of context issues and repeated melodic dirges.