Sweden seems to be bringing out some of Metal's best bands in the last decade - a small country with highly talented musicians. ONE HOUR HELL from Stockholm, Sweden is another one of those intense brutal Death / Thrash bands, and I'm personally in a phase of my life where I'm trying to look out for more and more quality Death Thrash bands. Does this sophomore album from these Swedish boys live up to my excitement? Let's see.

The album starts off with "Endless Rape", a really fast track leaving the listener to gasp for breath. And it's not just mindless mayhem brutality, mind you; it's got some great riffs all over the song and sounds technically right. The next few songs continue in similar fashion except that the songs get groovier and show the ability and versatility of the axe-men. I find that the continuous heavy blast beats by drummer Matte Agren are a big stand out in the album and give an edge over its contemporaries. While Joakim Mikiver (who is also part of a few other Death Metal bands) brings a nasty growling Death vocals. The vocals are not clear and they sound all packed and crushed in a limited time span of the songs and to me that's not a good think, even for a Death metal vocals, no matter how brutal they sound. While occasionally one can the dual vocals of both the growling and also a low tempo-crying vocals like in the song "Interfectus Est", the band does lot of experiments with the vocals and they do pull it off with a fair amount of success, except for the aforementioned 'packed' part. "Covered in Sin" is a very interesting song as the song keeps changing from high tempo to mid tempo and back and forth and also has a very impressive atmospheric feel in the latter part of the song, bringing in lot of variations and flavour to the album. "Penetrate Obliterate" packs in a lot more than I expected in its 4:45 min, as guitarists Krister Anderson and Jompa Nymark really bring out some fast guitar solos and shredding. It's very interesting to note that most of the songs in the album have different phases, where if in one phase the guitars are all over the song with the solos and shredding, in the next all the instruments go haywire and berserk upping the tempo, leaving the listeners begging for air. "Bodybags" is another one of those songs pounding the ears along with dual vocals, without sounding overtly experimental. The last and the longest song of the album - "Nemesis" packs in enough groovy head bangable riffs along with a minute of atmospheric silence in the middle to keep the listener engrossed. The production is pretty impressive, considering the effort taken here to eliminate any kind of distortion and noise to bring out the brutal heaviness of the each instruments and also the pleasing the ears with the occasional melody and atmospheric stuff.

The album cover art work deserves special mention as it is one of the best that I have seen in recent times, with the naked tree, hands and the animals beneath and tells a story in itself and I get a feeling that the songs speak about torture, pain and anguish in their lyrics. Clocking just below 40 minutes and this being their second shot at a full length album, I am really glad to have come across such a tight and beast of an album and "Interfectus" has really spread the dimensions of Death Thrash bands by incorporating the groove elements and is a must pick up if you are fan of those genres and this may just end up as my best find of this year.